lum

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

lum (plural lums)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A chimney.
   • 1768, Ross, Alexander, Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess: a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect:

     Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam,
     And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam;
     And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer,
     And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.

   • 1785, Burns, Robert, Halloween:

     'Till, fuff! he started up the lum, / An' Jean had e'en a sair heart / To see't that night.

   • 1933, Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair; 2), Edinburgh: Polygon, published 2006, →ISBN, page 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.

2. (Scotland, Northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) A woody valley.
4. (Scotland, Northern England) A deep pool.

Anagrams

• -mul-, UML, Ulm

Etymology

Related to lym.

Noun

lum m (indefinite plural lumenj, definite singular lumi, definite plural lumenjtë)

1. river

Adjective

lum

1. lucky

Noun

lum f (plural lumes)

(Gherdëina) light

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lumi.

Noun

lum

1. snow

Pronoun

lum

1. accusative of lu

Etymology

Latin lumen.

Noun

lum m (plural lums)

1. light
2. light source, such as a lamp or bulb

See also

• lutz

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps compare obsolete Welsh llumon (“chimney”).

Noun

lum (plural lums)

1. chimney