larum

[ lar-uhm ]

/ ˈlær əm /

noun

alarum.

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If you hang back, we will raise such a 'larum about your ears that you shan't know that your wife's your own for a month to come!'
Roughing it in the Bush|Susanna Moodie
This morning about seven oclock we had a larum that the Regulars were gone to Concord.
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I (of 2)|Hazard Stevens
She had a striking clock, another watch, and a "larum that does not strike."
The Old Furniture Book|N. Hudson Moore
We sung, hooped, hallowd, jubilled—set the cennell of hounds all in a larum.
Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2)|John Aubrey

Larum here seems to be tautological, perhaps a scribal error.
Genesis A|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for larum

larum

/ (ˈlærəm) /

noun

an archaic word for alarm

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