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English
Noun
lumb (plural lumbs)
- Alternative spelling of lum (“chimney”)
1768, Alexander Ross, “Canto I”, in The Fortunate Shepherdess, a Pastoral Tale; in Three Cantos, in the Scotish Dialect. , Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire: Francis Douglas, →OCLC, page 50:Now, by this time, the ſun begins to leam, / An' litt the hill-heads, wi' his morning beam, / An' birds, and beaſts, and fouk to be aſteer, / And ſtreams o' reek frae lumb heads to appear; […]
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