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• culm
  culm

  noun

  coal dust; slack.
• Culm
  Culm

  noun

  a formation consisting mainly of shales and sandstone deposited during the Carboniferous period in parts of Europe

culm

¹ American  

[kuhlm] / kʌlm /

noun

1. coal dust; slack.

2. anthracite, especially of inferior grade.

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culm ² American  

[kuhlm] / kʌlm /

noun

1. a stem or stalk, especially the jointed and usually hollow stem of grasses.

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verb (used without object)

1. to grow or develop into a culm.

culm ¹ British  

/ kʌlm /

noun

1. the hollow jointed stem of a grass or sedge

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Culm ² British  

noun

1. a formation consisting mainly of shales and sandstone deposited during the Carboniferous period in parts of Europe

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culm ³ British  

/ kʌlm /

noun

1. coal-mine waste

2. inferior anthracite

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culm Scientific  

/ kŭlm /

1. The stem of a grass or similar plant.

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Etymology

Origin of culm¹

1300–50; Middle English colme, probably equivalent to col coal + -m suffix of uncertain meaning (compare -m in Old English fæthm fathom, wæstm growth)

Origin of culm²

1650–60; < Latin culmus stalk; akin to calamus, haulm

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Example Sentences

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“It could also be a culm bank where they put all the refuse of the coal industry. It does look like there are trees growing on it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017

As far as DEP is concerned, reprocessing coal from culm banks is a benefit: It mitigates a hazard, as well as the environmental issues, Stefanko said.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015

Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,† on the Susquehanna River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long have there been rumors that PRC would go into the power business, using its own small grade anthracite and reclaiming culm banks for fuel.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had increased the number of his team, and still travelled the country round with culm and peat, and clay and lime.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

For the third year running, the Environment Agency said it had restocked the River Culm in Devon following pollution in 2019.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2021

Here is a gnat—the Culm communis—a vast deal too communis in these wilds, especially at eventide, but my hands have long ago been rendered proof against their bites à la Pasteur.

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables

A Culm, or straw-stem, such as that of Grasses and Sedges.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

Culm, kulm, n. the stalk or stem of corn or of grasses.—v.i. to form a culm.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The envoys offered the Teutonic master Culm and some adjoining lands for the order, in return for curbing the Prussians.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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