The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge.
[…] because, upon hearing him out, she sank down on the lawn in an impossible posture, examining a grass culm and frowning, he had taken his words back at once; […]
A German bishopric, founded in 1234.
A river in Devon, England, which joins the River Exe near Stoke Canon.
From Middle English culme, colme (“fragments of coal”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Old English *colm, related to Old English col (“coal”). Alternatively, perhaps from Welsh cwlm (“knot or tie”...
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