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walm

/wɔːm/

walm verb: to roll; to spout; to boil up.

Verb

walm (third-person singular simple present walms, present participle walming, simple past and past participle walmed)

  1. (obsolete) To roll; to spout; to boil up.
    • The waters boile, and walme to our desire.1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court...
    • It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.1845(?), A view of Devonshire in 1630, with a Pedigree of most of its gentry, page 344

Forms of walm

third-person singular presentwalms
present participlewalming
past participlewalmed
pastwalmed

Origin of walm

From Middle English walmen (“to surge, bubble forth, pour forth”), from walm, walme (“a gush, surge”), from Old English wælm, welm, wylm, wielm, wilm (“that which wells, a fount, stream, spring, source, surge”), from Proto-West Germanic *walmi, *walmu, from Proto-Germanic *walmiz, *walmuz.

Questions about walm

What does walm mean?
Walm means to roll; to spout; to boil up.
What part of speech is walm?
Walm is a verb.
How do you pronounce walm?
Walm is pronounced /wɔːm/.
What is the past tense of walm?
The past tense of walm is walmed.

Words near walm in the dictionary

  1. wallyballs
  2. wallydraigle
  3. wallydraigles
  4. Wallyford
  5. Wallyworld
  6. walm
  7. Walmajarri
  8. Walmart
  9. Walmarted
  10. Walmarter
  11. Walmarters

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