Definitions for Culm

Culm culm

Spelling: [kuhlm]
IPA: /kʌlm/

Culm is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Culm (clmu).

Definitions for Culm

noun

  1. coal dust; slack.
  2. anthracite, especially of inferior grade.
  3. a stem or stalk, especially the jointed and usually hollow stem of grasses.

verb (used without object)

  1. to grow or develop into a culm.

Origin of Culm

1300-50; Middle English colme, probably equivalent to col coal + -m suffix of uncertain meaning (compare -m in Old English fæthm fathom, wæstm growth)

Examples for Culm

You'll have a fine run down to culm, and you must send me a line back by the skipper.

The men—the lime-burners—were not long gone, and the culm was still burning.

Bress ye, honey, ye didn't 'spect to go back in de dark to culm?

The new teacher is at culm, waiting for Dirk to come over with his trunks.

Was he offended at what he had done and was doing for the culm people?

As for having him at culm Rock, it was too preposterous a thought to be entertained for a moment.

Uncle Richard was getting to be more of a mystery to him than culm Rock had been.

He trembled for fear Uncle Richard would forbid him to go to culm again.

Time and patience would do something for these culm children, after all, he thought.

On such a day came Pike to the bank of culm, with a loudly beating heart.

Word Value for Culm
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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