| 释义 |
▪ I. lum north. dial. and Sc.|lʌm|
Also 6 lumbe, 7 lume, 8 lumb.
[Of obscure etymology; possibly an application of OF. lum light (:—L. lūmen); cf. the uses of F. lumière in the sense of ‘aperture, passage’. The resemblance in form and sense to Welsh llumon chimney is noteworthy.]
†1. ? An opening in a roof; a skylight. Obs.
1507–8Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 659, ij ropez ad le lumbe pro lumine in pandoxatorio.
2. A chimney; also a chimney-top.
1697[see 3]. 1701Brand Orkney, etc. (1703) 145 They carefully fix their Eyes upon the Lums or Chimney Heads of this House. 1742Forbes Ajax Sp. etc. Jrnl. (1755) 30 Gin I had been gain out at the lum o' a house. a1774Fergusson Hallowfair Poems (1845) 13 Upon the tap of ilka lum The Sun began to keek. 1785Burns Halloween viii, He bleez'd owre her, an' she owre him,..Till fuff! he started up the lum. 1862G. Macdonald Dav. Elginbrod I. 33 By the side of the wide chimney, or more properly lum, hung an iron lamp. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Lum, a chimney placed on the top of an upcast shaft to carry off the smoke, &c., and to increase the ventilating current.
3. Comb.: lum-hat, a chimney-pot hat; lum-head, the upper part of a chimney, whence the smoke escapes; lum-sweeper, a chimney-sweeper.
1888Barrie When a Man's Single (1900) 86/2 It's Rob Angus come home in a *lum hat.
1768Ross Helenore (1789) 55 The sun begins to leam, And clouds of reek frae *lumb-heads to appear. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxvii, The..blue reek that came out of the lum-head.
1697Parish Reg. in Brand Hist. Newcastle (1789) I. 619 James Brown *lume sweeper.
▪ II. lum
see loom a., lumb2. |