culm
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- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 4
Definition of culm
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel.
“Holonyms: spoils, tailings”
“Here he lay down on a place soft with culm, to take his contemplated rest, and, before he was aware of it, sleep had descended on him, overpowered him, and bound him fast.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel.
“Holonyms: spoils, tailings”
“Here he lay down on a place soft with culm, to take his contemplated rest, and, before he was aware of it, sleep had descended on him, overpowered him, and bound him fast.”
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(countable, uncountable)The spoils from which such low-quality coal can be retrieved.
“culm dump”
“culm pile”
- (countable, uncountable)Anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
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The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge.
“[…] because, upon hearing him out, she sank down on the lawn in an impossible posture, examining a grass culm and frowning, he had taken his words back at once; […]”
name
- A German bishopric, founded in 1234.
- A river in Devon, England, which joins the River Exe near Stoke Canon.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English culme, colme (“fragments of coal”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Old English *colm, related to Old English col (“coal”). Alternatively, perhaps from Welsh cwlm (“knot or tie”), applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales.
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