Shawms is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 76 anagrams from letters in shawms (ahmssw).
1300-50; Middle English schalme Middle French chaume Latin calamus stalk, reed Greek kálamos reed; replacing Middle English schallemele Middle French chalemel (see c
In the second wagon will follow the musicians, the players upon the drum, the fife, and the shawm.
The shawm rang out yearningly beneath the pale expanse of an unsympathetic heaven.
The shawm was silent, the herdsman bent questioningly over the wall and Kurwenal made answer.
It was evolved in the sixteenth century from the pommers and bombards: the tenors and basses of the shawm or oboe family.
The name is believed to be derived from calamaula, a reed-pipe, which was corrupted to chalem-elle and then to shawm.
A figure is given (Galpin, p. 159) of a goat playing on a shawm from a carving of the twelfth century at Canterbury.
Cornemuse is a bagpipe; shalmye is a shawm, which was a wind-instrument, being derived from Lat.