LekhoriLekhoriA friend; a pal.
He looked down upon the girl beside him—a daughter of the desert walking across the face of a dead world with a son of the jungle. He smiled at the thought. He wished that he had had a sister, and that she had been like this girl. What a bully chum she would have been!
A roommate, especially in a college or university.
Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.
A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
Near-synonym: shark bait
A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
...self-supporting chum within the mould normally of corresponding and almost the same but lesser contour, whereby a space is provided between the chum and mould for the introduction of the powdered material and means for expanding the chum'.
Synonym of chum salmon.
A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
To share rooms with someone; to live together.
Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.
To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
A surname.
1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).
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To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
He began to chum for sharks, using whale oil and chopped whale meat.