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Clum vs Lum - What's the difference?

clum | lum |

As nouns the difference between clum and lum

is that clum is silence while lum is a chimney.

As an interjection clum

is silence; hush.

As an adjective clum

is silent; glum.

clum

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Silence.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (obsolete) Silence; hush
    • (Chaucer)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Silent; glum.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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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