Wiktionary
n. A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or more rarely, wood and 100-150 mm long and 25-35 mm wide at the mouth.
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Housing Units (2000): 12524
Land area (2000): 4.016800 sq. miles (10.403463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.019790 sq. miles (0.051255 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.036590 sq. miles (10.454718 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16875
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 38.968210 N, 76.979046 W
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Chillum
Wikipedia
A chillum, or chilam, is a straight conical pipe with end-to-end channel, traditionally made of clay and used since at least the eighteenth century by hindu monks, known as sadhus in India. It was invented in India. The culture of chillum-owning and smoking in a chillum has spread from India to the rest of the world since the mid-1960s.
Chillum may refer to:
- Chillum (pipe)
- Chillum, Maryland
- Chillum, an album by the band Second Hand
- West Hyattsville (WMATA station), originally planned to be named Chillum
Usage examples of "chillum".
Ill bet Sitting Bull and his braves are looking to rustle our cattle off the old Chillum Trail.
Cowboy Bob is going to stop Sitting Bull and his Cheyennes from stampeding his cattle off the old Chillum Trail.
Our Shawn said Millie Chillum said she was just a bag of nerves this morning.
Millie Chillum and the king and one or two hangers-on were clustered around the door to Magrat's room when Nanny Ogg arrived.
Shawn had never been privy to what queens wore under their clothes, but even starting with certain observations concerning Millie Chillum and working his way up, he'd never considered metal underwear.
I’ll bet Sitting Bull and his braves are looking to rustle our cattle off the old Chillum Trail.
The door to Magrat's room was opened by Millie Chillum, the maid, who curtseyed to Agnes, or at least to her hat, and then left her alone with the Queen, who was at her dressing table.
Millie Chillum carefully handed the baby to the priest, who held it gingerly.
And then again—later still, her cheeks pale and her hair unkempt, smoking marijuana from a silver chillum, in bed in the middle of the afternoon.
I'm standing off to the side, wondering if the Tack is going to show up as advertised, and I don't see who starts it, but suddenly Desmond just shuts up, right in the middle of a boring declaration about how aces & jokers & nats is all god's chillums under the skin, and when I look back over they're booing him and throwing peanuts, they're pelting him with salted peanuts still in the shell, bouncing them right off his head and his chest and his fucking trunk, tossing them into his hat, and Desmond is just standing there gaping.