From amar; a bunch of grain -- handful, sheaf.
see HEBREW amar
H5995. amir
עָמִיר noun [masculine] swath, row of fallen grain (hay, as Mishna, according to Vogelstl.c. 74 f. (who is then compelled to read עֹמֶר Micah 4:12), compare Syriac grass, SchwIdioticon 69); — Amos 2:13 (on cart), Jeremiah 9:21 (falling behind reaper), Micah 4:12 (brought to threshing-floor), Zechariah 12:6 (inflammable).