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n. - Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Ai think EBREEwun heer wud want to halm yoo – but waht do yoo need to know?
  • If there is an insufficiency of dung, you can add a foot of dry rubbish, such as strawberry or asparagus halm, or any other loose stuff.
  • It will now be necessary to wrap up the bed with straw, pea-halm, or hay, about eighteen inches wide at the bottom, drawing it in gradually to a foot wide, within three...
  • Let it be about three feet nine inches at the back by three feet six inches in the front; should there, however, happen to be a scarcity of dung, a foot of strawberry or...
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