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haulm (or halm)

[hawm]

noun

1. stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.
2. a single stem or stalk


Examples

1. Potato haulms, and club-rooted cabbage crops should, however, never be mixed with ordinary clean vegetable refuse, as they would be most likely to perpetuate the terrible diseases to which they are subject. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition

2. There was a bad to be prepared for planting out late cabbages for succession, and fresh seed to be sown for the kind that can weather the winter, as well as pease to be gathered, and the dead, dried haulms of the early crop to be cleared away for fodder and litter. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

origin

First recorded before 900; Middle English halm, Old English healm; cognate with Dutch, German halm, Old Norse halmr; akin to Latin culmus “stalk,” Greek kálamos “reed”