shalm

English

Noun

shalm (plural shalms)

1. Obsolete form of shawm.
   • 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert

     These few words were continually repeated, and to describe the sound, it was as if you heard forest-horns and shalms sounded together from a far distance.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Paris flings up her windows, claps hands, as the Avengers, with their shrilling drums and shalms tramp by....

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “shalm”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• halms

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Irish

Noun

shalm m

1. Lenited form of salm.