Crossword clues for haulm
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haulm \Haulm\ (h[add]m), n. [OE. halm, AS. healm; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. halm, Icel. h[=a]lmr, L. calamus reed, cane, stalk, Gr. kalamo`s. Cf. Excel, Culminate, Culm, Shawm, Calamus.] The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
Haulm \Haulm\, n. A part of a harness; a hame.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (''collectively'') The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching 2 An individual plant stem. 3 Part of a harness; a hame.
WordNet
n. stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding [syn: halm]
Usage examples of "haulm".
Where lawns had been were ridges of brown potato haulm, onions bent over to ripen, carrots, swedes, winter greens.
In other instances the haulm of the seed is left in the field so that the cattle have access to it.
She was digging potatoes, throwing the haulms aside, and collecting the tubers into little groups.
Close in front of the tips of the prostrate stolons, a crowd of very thin sticks and the dried haulms of grasses were driven into the sand, to represent the crowded stems of surrounding plants in a state of nature.
The sticks and haulms were removed after the passage of the four stolons, two of which were found to have assumed a permanently sinuous shape, and two were still straight.
Close in front of the tips of the prostrate stolons, a crowd of very thin sticks and the dried haulms of grasses were driven into the sand, to represent the crowded stems of surrounding plants in a state of nature.
Beyond the fish ponds, in the two pease fields that ran down the slope to the Meole Brook, the western boundary of the enclave, the haulms had long since been cut close and dried for stable bedding, and the roots ploughed back into the soil, but there would be a heavy and dirty job there spreading much of the ripened and tempered manure from the stable yard and the byres.