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Halm
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| —n | |
| 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 |
| [Old English healm; related to Old Norse halmr, Old High German halm stem, straw, Latin culmus stalk, Greek kalamos reed, Old Slavonic slama straw] | |
| halm or halm | |
| —n | |
| [Old English healm; related to Old Norse halmr, Old High German halm stem, straw, Latin culmus stalk, Greek kalamos reed, Old Slavonic slama straw] | |
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