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lum - What does it mean?

Definition of 'lum'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Scotland|northern England) A chimney.
  • (Robert Burns)
  • * 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 .
  • (Scotland|northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
  • (Scotland|northern England) A woody valley.
  • (Scotland|northern England) A deep pool.
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    Similar to 'lum'

    lam, loam, loom, leam, lyam, laam