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haulm

/hɒm/

haulm noun: the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.

Noun

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

  1. (uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
    Synonyms:
    helm, straw, thatch
  2. (countable) An individual plant stem.
  3. (countable) Part of a harness; a hame.

haulm meaning in Kannada and Persian

haulm in Kannada

ತಾಳು, ಕಾಂಡ, ಹುರುಳಿಕಾಯಿ, ಆಲೂಗೆಡ್ಡೆ, ಕಾಂಡಗಳು

haulm in Persian

stems of cultivated plants left after harvesting
کلور kolur, کلش kolaš

Synonyms of haulm

Forms of haulm

pluralhaulms
alternative formhalm
alternative formhame
alternative formhawm

Origin of haulm

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of French calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), and qalam.

Words formed from haulm

Words that rhyme with haulm

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Questions about haulm

What does haulm mean?
Haulm means the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
What is haulm in Kannada?
Haulm in Kannada is ತಾಳು, ಕಾಂಡ, ಹುರುಳಿಕಾಯಿ. See Haulm meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is haulm?
Haulm is a noun.
How do you pronounce haulm?
Haulm is pronounced /hɒm/.
What is the plural of haulm?
The plural of haulm is haulms.

Words near haulm in the dictionary

  1. hauling out
  2. hauling someone over the coals
  3. hauling tail
  4. hauling up
  5. haulings
  6. haulm
  7. haulms
  8. haulmy
  9. haulout
  10. haulouts
  11. hauls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haulm (page history and authors); haulm (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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