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Shawm

Definition: Shawm

Shawm

Noun

1. A medieval oboe.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shawm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Etymology: Shawm \Shawm\, noun. [from Old English expression shalmie, Old French chalemie; compare to French chalumeau shawm, chaume haulm, stalk; all from Latin calamus reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and compare to Calumet.]. (Websters 1913)

"Shawm" is a common misspelling or typo for: saw, sham, shame, Shaw, shawl, shim, show, shown.


Crosswords: Shawm

English words defined with "shawm": bombard, bombardonShalm. (references)
Etymologies containing "shawm": Calumet. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Shawm" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (bombarde, cornet, shawm).

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Specialty Definition: Shawm

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The shawm was a Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family, made in Europe from the late 13th century until the 17th century. It was ancestral to the modern oboe.

It had a long bore which started straight but widened into a conical end, and had a double reed. It produced a loud shrill tone, and was used by military bands during the Crusades, as well as in ordinary life for dancing.

The oboe developed from the shawm in the mid-17th century when the French musicians Jean Hotteterre and Michel Danican Philidor modified it, producing an instrument with a narrower bore and a reed which is held by the player's lips near the end.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shawm."

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Commercial Usage: Shawm

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Shawm

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "shawm": shawm-like.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shawm

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

shawm

57

offspring shawm

3

descendant shawm

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Shawm

Language Translations for "shawm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

schalmei (reed pipe). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shawm (bombarde, cornet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awmshay

   

Russian 

  

средневековый музыкальный инструмент типа гобоя. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caramillo (pipe, Reed, reedpipe). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

obuaya benzer bir çalgı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Shawm

Derivations

Words beginning with "shawm": shawms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shawm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: whams.

Words within the letters "a-h-m-s-w"

-1 letter: hams, haws, mash, maws, sham, shaw, swam, wash, wham.

-2 letters: ash, ham, has, haw, mas, maw, saw, sha, was, wha.

-3 letters: ah, am, as, aw, ha, hm, ma, sh.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-m-s-w"
 

+1 letter: shawms.

 

+2 letters: cumshaw, haymows, mawkish, showman, wampish, warmish, warmths.

 

+3 letters: cumshaws, somewhat, swampish, washroom, whammies, womanish.

 

+4 letters: hairworms, hawkmoths, homewards, mawkishly, mouthwash, scrimshaw, somewhats, switchman, tomahawks, wampished, wampishes, warmouths, washerman, washermen, washrooms, washwoman, washwomen, wheelsman, whimsical.

 

+5 letters: earthworms, heartworms, horsewoman, matchwoods, meanwhiles, midwatches, scrimshaws, wampishing, womanhoods, womanishly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Shawm


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 61 77 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    .-    .--.    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01100001 01110111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#97 &#119 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0061 0077 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374678979

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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