culm
/kuhlm/US // kʌlm //UK // (kʌlm) //
秆,秆子,涵洞,莩
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : coal dust; slack.
- : anthracite, especially of inferior grade.
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Examples
The men—the lime-burners—were not long gone, and the culm was still burning.
Anthracite or Culm is a kind of coal containing 90 per cent.
The sides and top are covered with culm or slack, and the heap is kindled from certain openings towards the circumference.
The Culm used to be a good river at Culmstock, tormented already by a factory, but not strangled as yet by a railroad.
How it is now the present writer does not know, and is afraid to ask, having heard of a vile "Culm Valley Line."
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