English

Noun

lum ‎(plural lums)

1. (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.

   • Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess: a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect, Alexander Ross (poet), 1768:

     Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam,

     And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam;

     And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer,

     And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.

2. (Scotland, Northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) A woody valley.
4. (Scotland, Northern England) A deep pool.

Anagrams

• Ulm
• UML

Albanian

Etymology

Related to lym.

Noun

lum m (indefinite plural lumenj, definite singular lumi, definite plural lumenjtë)

1. river

Lojban

Rafsi

lum

1. rafsi of lumci.

Novial

Pronoun

lum

1. accusative of lu

Occitan

Etymology

Latin lumen.

Noun

lum m (plural lums)

1. light
2. light source, such as a lamp or bulb

See also

• lutz

Scots

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps compare obsolete Welsh llumon ‎(“chimney”).

Noun

lum ‎(plural lums)

1. chimney