ˈculmy, a.
Also 4 colmie, -omy.
[f. culm1 + -y.]
† 1. Blackened or begrimed with soot: = coomy.
| a 1300 K. Horn 1082 He lokede him a-bute Wiþ his colmie snute. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 356 Thanne pacience parceyued of poyntes [of] his cote, Was colmy [v.r. culmy, colomy] þorw coueityse and vnkynde desyrynge. |
2. Of the nature of or abounding in culm, as culmy beds or culmy deposits.