Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The stems of peas, beans, potatoes, or grasses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An improper form of
hame . - noun See
halm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A part of a harness; a hame.
- noun The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun collectively The
stems of variouscultivated plants , left afterharvesting thecrop to be used as animallitter or forthatching - noun An
individual plantstem . - noun Part of a
harness ; ahame .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This "haulm" was useful not only for lighting fires with, but, like the bean stubs, for heating those capacious brick ovens in the old chimney corners, in which most of the cottagers then baked their own bread.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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Another concession made by the farmer to the men was that each man was allowed after harvest a load of "haulm," or wheat stubble, left in the field from reaping time.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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If, however, the straw, or "haulm," as it is more commonly called, is to be fed to live stock, the more quickly that the threshing is done after harvesting, the more valuable will the haulm be for such a use.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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Not much knitting was done (a few rounds), and not much gardening (I threw some pea and poppy haulm from last year into the burn).
Archive 2009-01-01 Jean 2009
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Mr. Swipes recommended dead pea-haulm, with the sticks left in it to ensure a draught.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Cowpea haulm was used as fodder for feeding animals and livestock.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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Viruses are particularly difficult to control; methods include (in addition to the use of virus-free planting material) rogueing and destroying infected plants, control of aphids by insecticides, and, when potatoes are being grown for seed tubers, early destruction of the haulm.
Chapter 25 1987
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Except for occasional use of the dried haulm, there is only scattered information on the deliberate use of the winged bean plant as a livestock food.
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Asparagus haulm should also be cut and carried off the ground, and the beds dunged.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann
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The name has been got from _healm_, or _haulm_, straw, and _leac_,
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
hernesheir commented on the word haulm
"My potatoes appear first-class. They were well looked after and sprayed against blight during growth, and the haulm was burnt off a month before they were lifted."
- Clyde Higgs, article in the British agricultural periodical The Countryman Winter, 1956, p. 733.
September 29, 2009
yarb commented on the word haulm
Marvellous word; bless you and your Countryman.
September 29, 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word haulm
Jack and the Beanhaulm?
July 13, 2015