Definitions for haulm

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Spelling: [hawm]
IPA: /hɔm/

Haulm is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in haulm (ahlmu).

Definitions for haulm

noun

  1. stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.
  2. a single stem or stalk.

Origin of haulm

before 900; Middle English halm, Old English healm; cognate with Dutch, German halm, Old Norse halmr; akin to Latin culmus stalk, Greek kálamos reed

Examples for haulm

The first application should be given towards the end of June or early in July, immediately the haulm is sufficiently developed.

When frost comes on, the boxes are protected by any kind of litter and haulm.

In other instances the haulm of the seed is left in the field so that the cattle have access to it.

It is next to impossible to grow them too well; for if the haulm runs up higher than usual, the produce will be the finer.

The residuum, after extraction of the oil, and the haulm are nutritious cattle foods.

The haulm, when the seed crop has been well saved, has some feeding value, especially for cattle.

These form better coverings than straw or haulm, which is liable to become musty, and communicate the effect to the roots.

I have used, with advantage, the haulm of beans cut into lengths of about an inch.

He had theories as to hilling potatoes, or rather as to not hilling them until the ground could be drawn round the haulm wet.

Word Value for haulm
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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