yelm

English

Alternative forms

yealm

Etymology

From Middle English yelm, from Old English ġilm, ġelm (“handful”), from Proto-West Germanic *galmi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɛlm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛlm

Noun

yelm (plural yelms)

(dialect) A bundle of straw for thatching.
- 1952, Louis Francis Salzman, Building in England, p. 224:
  The thatcher then laid the 'yelms' , or bunches of drawn straw, on the laths, beginning at the eaves and working up towards the ridge.

Verb

yelm (third-person singular simple present yelms, present participle yelming, simple past and past participle yelmed)

(dialect) To prepare straw for use as thatch.
- 1952, Louis Francis Salzman, Building in England, p. 224:
  The preparation of straw for thatch, which was known as 'yelming' , consisted in damping it and 'drawing' it with a thatching-fork, or great comb, so as to get the straws parallel.

Anagrams

Emly, Lyme, elmy, lyme, myel-, ylem

Middle English

Etymology

Inherited from Old English ġilm, ġelm (“handful”), from Proto-West Germanic *galmi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɛlm/

Noun

yelm (plural yelmes)

(hapax) yelm, yealm (sheaf of straw for thatching)

Descendants

English: yelm, yealm

References

“yelm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.