Definitions for shawm

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IPA: /ʃɔm/

Shawm is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in shawm (ahmsw).

Definitions for shawm

noun

  1. an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.

Origin of shawm

1300-50; Middle English schalme Middle French chaume Latin calamus stalk, reed Greek kálamos reed; replacing Middle English schallemele Middle French chalemel (see c

Examples for shawm

The shawm rang out yearningly beneath the pale expanse of an unsympathetic heaven.

Cornemuse is a bagpipe; shalmye is a shawm, which was a wind-instrument, being derived from Lat.

The shawm was silent, the herdsman bent questioningly over the wall and Kurwenal made answer.

A figure is given (Galpin, p. 159) of a goat playing on a shawm from a carving of the twelfth century at Canterbury.

The name is believed to be derived from calamaula, a reed-pipe, which was corrupted to chalem-elle and then to shawm.

It was evolved in the sixteenth century from the pommers and bombards: the tenors and basses of the shawm or oboe family.

In the second wagon will follow the musicians, the players upon the drum, the fife, and the shawm.

Word Value for shawm
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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