Definitions for scherm

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Spelling: [skerm, skurm]
IPA: /skɛrm, skɜrm/

Scherm is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in scherm (cehmrs).

Definitions for scherm

noun

  1. (in South Africa) a hut, screen, or shelter constructed from branches and canvas, scraped animal hides, or the like.

Origin of scherm

1860-65; Afrikaans skerm screen, shelter Dutch scherm screen, (earlier) shelter

Examples for scherm

We passed scherm after scherm, and still more Matabele, more fires, and on we rode.

The bedroom is usually the lee–side of a bush or scherm of cut branches.

And now footsteps were heard approaching the scherm, together with the rattle of assegai hafts.

The whole inside of the scherm was alive with waving shields and savage forms, and glinting blades.

Then I turned a corner of the scherm (camp fence), and saw at once what was up.

We outspanned for the night without water, and with the accompaniment of scherm and camp fires.

There were several of us, and we slept in a scherm, very snug and jolly we were too.

Mtezani, during the disturbance, had been standing aloof against the further side of the scherm watching events.

I propose that we take a turn at watching outside, one each side of the scherm.

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