shawm
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Shawm noun
Origin: OE. shalmie, OF. chalemie; cf. F. chalumeau shawm, chaume haulm, stalk; all fr. L. calamus a reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and cf. Calumet.
Music A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Thomas Otway
Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute.— Michael Drayton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54