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Webster 1913 Edition
Hawm
Hawm
,Verb.
I.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
To lounge; to loiter.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tennyson.
Definition 2024
hawm
hawm
English
Verb
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, […]
- 1880, Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems, The Northern Cobbler:
Etymology 2
Noun
hawm (plural hawms)
- Alternative form of haulm (straw)