Haulm definition

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The stems of peas, beans, potatoes, or grasses.
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The stalks or stems of cultivated cereal plants, beans, peas, etc., esp. after the crop has been gathered.
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Straw or hay used for thatching, bedding, etc.
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A stem of grass or grain.
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(collectively) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching.
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An individual plant stem.
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Part of a harness; a hame.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of haulm - helm 1, haum, hawm

Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
haulm
Plural:
haulms

Origin of haulm

  • Middle English halm straw from Old English healm

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

  • From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos.

    From Wiktionary

Haulm Sentence Examples

  • Tubers are also sometimes formed on aerial branches, as in some Aroids, Begonias, &c. The production of small green tubers on the haulm, in the axils of the leaves of the potato, is not very unfrequent, and affords an interesting proof of the true morphological nature of the underground shoots and tubers.

  • When the haulm of the potato has grown to about 6 in.

  • As incubation goes on the hollow is somewhat deepened, and perhaps some haulm is added to its edge, so that at last a very fair nest is the result.

  • The haulm and husks are either used for litter or burned, and the ashes spread upon the land.

  • The nature of these tubers is further rendered evident by the presence of "eyes" or leaf-buds, which in due time lengthen into shoots and form the haulm or stems of the plant.

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