culm

[kuhlm]

culm

1[kuhlm]
noun
1.
coal dust; slack.
2.
anthracite, especially of inferior grade.

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

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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culm

2[kuhlm]
noun
1.
a stem or stalk, especially the jointed and usually hollow stem of grasses.
verb (used without object)
2.
to grow or develop into a culm.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin culmus stalk; akin to calamus, haulm
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culm1 (kʌlm)
 
n
1.  coal-mine waste
2.  inferior anthracite
 
[C14: probably related to coal]

culm2 (kʌlm)
 
n
the hollow jointed stem of a grass or sedge
 
[C17: from Latin culmus stalk; see haulm]

Culm or Culm Measures
 
n
a formation consisting mainly of shales and sandstone deposited during the Carboniferous period in parts of Europe
 
[C19: from culm1]
 
Culm Measures or Culm Measures
 
n
 
[C19: from culm1]

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culm   (kŭlm)  Pronunciation Key 
The stem of a grass or similar plant.
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