hawm

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English

Etymology 1

Unknown

Verb

hawm (third-person singular simple present hawms, present participle hawming, simple past and past participle hawmed)

  1. (UK, dialect) To lounge; to loiter.

Etymology 2

Noun

hawm (plural hawms)

  1. Alternative form of haulm (straw)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hawm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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