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haulm

/hɒm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
haulm
IPA
/hɒm/
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.

Uncountable

noun

An individual plant stem.

Countable

noun

Part of a harness; a hame.

Countable

Etymology

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of French calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), and qalam.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

haulms (plural) halm (alternative) hame (alternative) hawm (alternative)

Derived Forms

dehaulm haulmy

Synonyms

helm straw thatch halm

Rhymes With

from mom tom bomb prom dom rom om bom assam guam nom

Questions

How do you pronounce haulm?
The recorded pronunciation is /hɒm/.
What does haulm mean?
The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
Where does haulm come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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