different between shawm vs hawm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chalemel (French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kálamos). Doublet of chalumeau and probably caramel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

shawm (plural shawms)

1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked,

     There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.

Synonyms

• zurna

Derived terms

• Catalan shawm
• shawmist, shawmer
• still shawm

Translations

Anagrams

• hawms, whams

English

Etymology 1

Unknown

Verb

hawm (third-person singular simple present hawms, present participle hawming, simple past and past participle hawmed)

1. (Britain, dialect) To lounge; to loiter.
   • 1880, Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems, The Northern Cobbler:

     Guzzlin' an' soäkin' an' smoäkin' an' hawmin' about i' the laanes, […]

Etymology 2

Noun

hawm (plural hawms)

1. Alternative form of haulm (straw)

Anagrams

• mwah, wham