haulm

Meaning

1. The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
2. An individual plant stem.
3. Part of a harness; a hame.

Synonyms

straw

stalk

thatch

culm

halm

stipe

stubble

wheat straw

wheat-straw

chaff

wheat stalk

husk

scape

shuck

stem

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɒm/

Etymology

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4), and shawm.