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  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

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

The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, the hard nature of the coal already dug unfitted it, except as culm, for household use or smelting purposes in such furnaces as existed, where the fuel was principally charcoal.

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

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

Warriors arrived from both countries in fairly large numbers, and during their presence ruined villages and churches were rebuilt in the district of Culm, where the conversions had taken place mainly.

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

Culm stouter, nearly terete; leaves broadly linear, those of the involucre 8 or 9, tapering from base to apex; achene round-obovate, faintly wrinkled, the tubercle decurrent on its edges.—Low pine-barrens, Va. to Fla. 6.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Culm fossils appear in the Carnic Alps, in the Balkans and parts of Spain, also in Spitzbergen and part of New Guinea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

One of the first acts was to purchase for various considerations, from the Bishop of Plotsk and from Christian, the Bishop of Prussia, their rights over the lands granted them in Culm.

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