English

Noun

chunam ‎(usually uncountable, plural chunams)

1. A type of plaster used in India, made from shell-lime and sand.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 429:

     The floor of the room was of polished chunam, white as curds.

Verb

chunam ‎(third-person singular simple present chunams, present participle chunaming, simple past and past participle chunamed)

1. (transitive) To plaster or waterproof with chunam.
   • The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 8 March 1848

     A PUNT FOR SALE, thirty-four feet long, twelve feet broad, and three feet ten inches deep, chunamed, sheathed, and coppered, carries about fifteen tons.

Anagrams

• chuman
• Manchu
• maunch