culm

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Known variously as "culm," "gob," "slate" or "boney," waste coal is mining refuse cast aside during coal processing as too low-quality to burn.

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  1. noun The stem of a grass or similar plant.
  2. noun Waste from anthracite coal mines, consisting of fine coal, coal dust, and dirt.
  3. noun Carboniferous shale.
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  1. Latin culmus, stalk.
  2. Middle English colme, coal dust, perhaps from Old English col, coal.

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  1. Also dial. coom; apparently from Middle English culme, colm, soot, smoke, later culmy, colmy.
  2. from Latin culmus, a stalk; cf. calamus, a stalk (see calamus), = English haulm, q. v.
 

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