Chilam vs Chillum - What's the difference?
chilam | chillum | Alternative forms |
Chilam has no English definition.
A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or more rarely, wood and 100-150 mm long and 25-35 mm wide at the mouth.
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*Introduction to the Trinath Mela'' Panchal. ''quoted in :
Chillum is a alternative form of chilam.
Chilam is often a misspelling of chillum.
Chilam has no English definition.
As a noun chillum is
a conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or more rarely, wood and 100-150 mm long and 25-35 mm wide at the mouth.chilam
Not English
Chilam has no English definition. It may be misspelled.chillum
English
Alternative forms
*chilamNoun
(en noun)Holy Smoke by Dolf Hartsuiker
- "Especially for him I’ve kept some hash that I had gotten from another sadhu, a piece of black Manali of passable quality. In my hotel-room I cut it in two pieces — each sufficient for one chilam ( a hash-pipe, usually earthenware, in the shape of a bottleneck, that has to be held in two hands for smoking)."
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission ReportNOTE BY MR. G. A. GRIERSON, C.I.E., MAGISTRATE AND COLLECTOR, HOWRAH, ON REFERENCES TO THE HEMP PLANT OCCURRING IN SANSKRIT AND HINDI LITERATURE
- "The votaries should assemble at night and worship with flowers. The ganja should be washed in the manner in which people wash ganja for smoking. The worshipper must fill three chillums with equal quantities of ganja, observing due awe and reverence."
References
*bidri chillum, India, 18th Century.
