culm measures

Variant of culm

culm definition

culm (kulm)

noun

  1. waste material from coal screenings or washings
  2. fine pieces of anthracite coal

Etymology: northern Brit dial. < ME colme, culme < ? OE col, coal + ? suffix as in fæthm, fathom

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