Haulm
/hɔːm/noun
The stems and leaves of peas, beans, potatoes, or grain left after the crop has been harvested.
Did you know?Haulm comes from an old Germanic word for straw or stalk, and it’s one of those plain agricultural terms that preserves the language of pre-modern fields and harvest life.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kel-
“to cover, conceal”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*halmaz
“straw, stalk, covering”
Old English
OE
healm
“straw, stalk, chaff”
Middle English
ME
halm
“stalk, straw, haulm”
Modern English
English
haulm
“the stems and leaves of certain crops after harvesting”