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▪ I. chaum, n. Obs. or dial.
Also Chame.
[a phonetic variant of chawn n.]
= chawn.
1601Holland Pliny ii. lxxxvi, Chawmes [ed. 1634 chawnes] and gaping gulfes. 1825Britton Beauties of Wilts. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chawm. a chasm, a crack in the ground. 1882W. Worcestersh. Wds. (E.D.S.) Chaum, a crack in a floor or wall. 1884Upton-on-Severn Wds. (E.D.S.) Chawm, a crevice, an earth-crack.
▪ II. † chaum, v. Obs.
[phonetic variant of chawn v.: cf. prec.]
intr. To chap, crack, gape in fissures.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 24 Chapping grounds, chinking, or chauming with Cranies. [Elsewhere also chaun.] |