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Webster 1913 Edition
Culm
Culm
(kŭlm)
, Noun.
(Bot.)
The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
Culm
,Noun.
[Perh. from W.
cwlm
knot or tie, applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: cf. OE. culme
smoke, soot.] (Min.)
(a)
Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
(b)
The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
Raymond.
Webster 1828 Edition
Culm
CULM
,Noun.
1.
In botany, the stalk or stem of corn and grasses, usually jointed and hollow, and supporting the leaves and fructification.2.
The straw or dry stalks of corn and grasses.3.
A species of fossil coal, found in small masses, not adhering when heated, difficult to be ignited, and burning with little flame, but yielding a disagreeable smell.Definition 2024
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English
Noun
culm (countable and uncountable, plural culms)
- waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
- 1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker, Chapter XXI:
- 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.
- 1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker, Chapter XXI:
- anthracite, especially when found in small masses
Etymology 2
Noun
culm (plural culms)
- (botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge
- 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 150:
- ...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;...
- 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 150: