English Dictionary

helm

IPA（発音記号）

/hɛlm/

名詞

可算名詞 別表記 異形 不可算名詞 廃用

(countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.

日本語の意味

（可算）トウモロコシの茎、または（不可算）トウモロコシの茎をまとめたもの、特に束ねたり、藁葺きのためにまっすぐに並べたりするもの

The old farmer repaired the village roof with bundles of helm from last autumn's harvest.

老農夫は昨秋の収穫からの藁の束で村の屋根を修理した。

意味（1）

(countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”)

The sheriff, John Griffith, had prepared green wood to burn him; but one master John Pikes, pitying the man, caused divers to go with him to Ridland, half a mile off, who brought good store of helme-sheaves, which indeed made good dispatch with little pain, in comparison to that he should have suffered with the green wood.

意味（3）

(uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of bentgrass (“any of numerous reedy grass species of the genus Agrostis”)

The Italians, and Spaniards, call it Sparto, and the ſecond ſort Albardi, The Dutch Halm. And vve in Engliſh, Helme, and Matvveede, but the people all along the Coaſts of Norfolke and Suffolke, call it Marram, and may be called Sea Ruſhes as vvell.

helms （ plural ）