As a noun gawms
is plural of gawm.
As a verb hawms is
third-person singular of hawm.
gawms
English
Noun
(head)
hawms
English
Verb
(head)
(hawm) hawm
English
Etymology 1
Uncertain.
Verb
(
en verb)
(UK, dialect) To lounge; to loiter.
- (Tennyson)
Etymology 2