haulm

American  

[hawm] / hɔm /

Or halm

noun

1. stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.

2. a single stem or stalk.

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haulm British  

/ hɔːm /

noun

1. the stems or stalks of beans, peas, potatoes, grasses, etc, collectively, as used for thatching, bedding, etc

2. a single stem of such a plant

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Etymology

Origin of haulm

First recorded before 900; Middle English halm, Old English healm; cognate with Dutch, German halm, Old Norse halmr; akin to Latin culmus “stalk,” Greek kálamos “reed”

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Example Sentences

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haulm

It should always be of the same temperature as the frame, and as soon as the haulm commences to turn yellow watering must be discontinued.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons

This cow he attended to with his own hand, carefully examining each stalk or haulm she ate, in order that no poisonous weed might be consumed by her, and thus poison the milk.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai

Grass, corn, white cabbages, and lettuces, and especially buck-wheat, cut, when half ripe, and flung down in the haulm.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett

It is compounded of hem, i.e. haulm, a stalk, and lock, or leac, a plant, thus signifying merely a plant with a stem. 

From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin

It may be a clerical error for "Kasabah" = stalk, haulm, straw.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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