Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The stems of peas, beans, potatoes, or grasses.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An improper form of hame.
  • noun See halm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A part of a harness; a hame.
  • noun The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun collectively The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching
  • noun An individual plant stem.
  • noun Part of a harness; a hame.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English halm, straw, from Old English healm.]

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From Middle English halm, from Old English healm.

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  • "My potatoes appear first-class. They were well looked after and sprayed against blight during growth, and the haulm was burnt off a month before they were lifted."

    - Clyde Higgs, article in the British agricultural periodical The Countryman Winter, 1956, p. 733.

    September 29, 2009

  • Marvellous word; bless you and your Countryman.

    September 29, 2009

  • Jack and the Beanhaulm?

    July 13, 2015