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