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Webster 1913 Edition

(ha̤m)

Noun.

See

, straw.

Verb.

[Etymol. uncertain.]

To lounge; to loiter.

[Prov. Eng.]

Tennyson.

hawm ‎(third-person singular simple present hawms, present participle hawming, simple past and past participle hawmed)

(Britain, dialect) To lounge; to loiter.
- 1880, Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems, The Northern Cobbler:
  Guzzlin' an' soäkin' an' smoäkin' an' hawmin' about i' the laanes, […]

hawm ‎(plural hawms)