lum
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Origin uncertain.
Noun [edit]
lum (plural lums)
- (Scotland, northern England) A chimney.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Burns to this entry?)
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 277:
- they cleared the Manse and went up by the Mains, with the smell of the dung from its hot cattle-court, and the smell of the burning wood in its lums.
- (Scotland, northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
- (Scotland, northern England) A woody valley.
- (Scotland, northern England) A deep pool.
Anagrams [edit]
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Rafsi [edit]
lum
Occitan [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin lumen.
Noun [edit]
lum m (plural lums)
- light
- light source, such as a lamp or bulb
See also [edit]
Scots [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Origin uncertain; perhaps compare obsolete Welsh llumon (“chimney”).
Noun [edit]
lum (plural lums)
