Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See shawm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See shawm.

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  • noun Obsolete form of shawm.

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Examples

  • The musicians playing the virginal, the dulcimer, and the trilling shalm were familiar, but Gord couldn't recall their names.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • [35] "The shalm, or shawm, was a wind instrument, like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle."

    Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

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