lum
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lʌm/
- Rhymes: -ʌm
Noun
lum (plural lums)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A chimney.
- 1768, Ross, Alexander, Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess: a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect:
- 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.
- 1785, Burns, Robert, Halloween:
- 'Till, fuff! he started up the lum, / An' Jean had e'en a sair heart / To see't that night.
- 1933, Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair; 2), Edinburgh: Polygon, published 2006, →ISBN, page 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.
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- (Scotland, Northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A woody valley.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A deep pool.
Albanian
Etymology
Related to lym.
Novial
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin lūmen, from Proto-Indo-European *léwksmn̥, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”).
Scots
Etymology
Origin uncertain; perhaps compare obsolete Welsh llumon (“chimney”).
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