Culm Definition

kŭlm
noun
Waste material from coal screenings or washings.
Webster's New World
Fine pieces of anthracite coal.
Webster's New World
The jointed stem of various grasses, usually hollow.
Webster's New World
Carboniferous shale.
American Heritage
Inferior anthracite coal.
American Heritage
verb
To grow or develop into a culm.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A German bishopric, founded in 1234.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Culm

Noun

Singular:
culm
Plural:
culms

Origin of Culm

  • Perhaps related to coal. 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: compare Old English culme.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English colme coal dust perhaps from Old English col coal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowed from Latin culmus.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin culmus stalk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Culm Sentence Examples

  • Sediments approaching to the culm type, with similar flora and fauna, were deposited in synclinal hollows in parts of France and Spain.

  • The principal exports are corn and other agricultural produce; the imports are coal, culm, timber and slate.

  • The only doubt arises from the existence of insect remains, referred to the order Coleoptera, in the Silesian Culm of Steinkunzendorf near Reichenbach.

  • The cost of filling has been greatly reduced by the system of flushing culm, sand, gravel and similar material, through pipes leading from the surface into mine workings.

  • Mine fires may sometimes be reached by bore-holes sunk for the purpose from the surface, and the burning workings below filled by flushing with culm and water.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUL

Words Ending With

MLMULM

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Words Starting With C and Ending With M

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