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Webster 1913 Edition


Shawm

Shawm

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Noun.
[OE.
shalmie
, OF.
chalemie
; cf. F.
chalumeau
shawm,
chaume
haulm, stalk; all fr. L.
calamus
a reed, reed pipe. See
Haulm
, and cf.
Calumet
.]
(Mus.)
A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
[Written also
shalm
,
shaum
.]
Otway.
Even from the shrillest
shaum
unto the cornamute.
Drayton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Shawm

SHAWM

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Definition 2024


shawm

shawm

English

Noun

shawm (plural shawms)

  1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
    • 1985: There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

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