lum
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of lum
C17: of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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Brown is of a generation with my parents, and grew up calling a chimney a lum, an ear a lug, a frog a puddock, and the likes of David Cameron, a sleekit skellum.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010
Wareham, Mass. Sir: To your reviewer: Lang may his lum reek.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Result: Guy took off for a year's work with his brother in lum ber camps along the Columbia River.
From Time Magazine Archive
A conundrum at best, it consists of three-tiered automatically movable towers of ill-assorted lum ber, through which the actors peek out like birds in wooden cages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Haud that lum hat, Bawbie!" he says; an' he oot wi' the picture, an' roars oot—"Number 2217!
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
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