Elm vs Eam - What's the difference?
elm | eam |
(lb) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm', with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall ' elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
Wood from an elm tree.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
*2011 , Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622 :
As nouns the difference between elm and eam
is that elm is a tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers while eam is uncle.elm
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(wikipedia elm)Noun
Derived terms
* * * Dutch elm disease * * * * * Siberian elm *See also
* keyaki, kiaki * zelkovaAnagrams
* * * ----eam
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Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scottish)Noun
(en noun)- James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam , Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.