haulm noun & verb. [hɔ:m] Also halm [hɑ:m].
[Old English halm (healm) = Old Saxon, Old High German (Dutch, German) halm, Old Norse hálmr, from Germanic, from Indo-European base repr. also by Latin culmus, Greek kalamos reed.]
A. noun.
1. collect. sing. The stems of various cultivated plants, esp. peas, beans, vetches, hops, potatoes, etc., or (now less commonly) corn or grass, esp. as left after gathering the crop and used for litter or thatching; straw. OE.

2. A single stalk or stem (of a bean, potato, grass, etc.). OE.
b. verb trans. Lay (straw or haulm) straight for thatching. M17.

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