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shawm


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shawm  \Shawm\,  n.  [OE.  shalmie  OF  chalemie  cf  F.  chalumeau 
  shawm,  chaume  haulm,  stalk;  all  fr  L.  calamus  a  reed,  reed 
  pipe.  See  {Haulm},  and  cf  {Calumet}.]  (Mus.) 
  A  wind  instrument  of  music,  formerly  in  use  supposed  to  have 
  resembled  either  the  clarinet  or  the  hautboy  in  form 
  [Written  also  {shalm},  {shaum}.]  --Otway. 
 
  Even  from  the  shrillest  shaum  unto  the  cornamute. 
  --Drayton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shawm 
  n  :  a  medieval  form  of  the  oboe 




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