lum

noun

1. (Northern-England, Scotland)A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.

   “Now, by this time, the ſun begins to leam, / An' litt the hill-heads, wi' his morning beam, / An' birds, and beaſts, and fouk to be aſteer, / And ſtreams o' reek frae lumb heads to appear; […]”

   “He bleez'd ovvre her, an' ſhe ovvre him, / As they vvad never mair part, / Till, fuff! he ſtarted up the lum, / An' Jean had e'en a ſair heart / To ſee't that night.”

   “Sae, I wad not trust mysell with another look at poor Woodend, for the very blue reek that came out of the lum-head pat me in mind of the change of market-days with us.”

   “Down the broad lum / Came melting flakes that hiss'd upon the coal; / Under my eyelids blew the blinding smoke, / And for a time I sat like one bewitch'd, / Still as a stone.”

   “Two "lums" on the ridge served the double purpose of letting out the smoke and in the light. […] A new peat fire had been put on, and the day being calm, the lazy smoke seemed more inclined to remain inside than to go out the lums, as it ought to have done.”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, specifically)A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
3. (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.
4. (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)A deep pool, especially one in a riverbed.

   “The Kettle Wells are two lums, situated in Bonson's Wood, near Stanmore, which are not surpassed for Elysian beauty. The fall of the water into the first well is inconsiderable; but that continually empties itself into the lum below, over a smooth precipice of thirty feet.”

name

1. An English surname transferred from the place name.

   “Alternative forms: Limb, Lumb, Lumm”

2. A surname from Chinese.
3. A diminutive of the male given name Columbus.