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culm

/kuhlm/US // kʌlm //UK // (kʌlm) //

秆,秆子,涵洞,莩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : coal dust; slack.
    • : anthracite, especially of inferior grade.

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Examples

  • The men—the lime-burners—were not long gone, and the culm was still burning.

  • Anthracite or Culm is a kind of coal containing 90 per cent.

  • The sides and top are covered with culm or slack, and the heap is kindled from certain openings towards the circumference.

  • The Culm used to be a good river at Culmstock, tormented already by a factory, but not strangled as yet by a railroad.

  • How it is now the present writer does not know, and is afraid to ask, having heard of a vile "Culm Valley Line."