▪ I. chaum, n. Obs. or dial.
Also Chame.
[a phonetic variant of chawn n.]
= chawn.
| 1601 Holland Pliny ii. lxxxvi, Chawmes [ed. 1634 chawnes] and gaping gulfes. 1825 Britton Beauties of Wilts. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chawm. a chasm, a crack in the ground. 1882 W. Worcestersh. Wds. (E.D.S.) Chaum, a crack in a floor or wall. 1884 Upton-on-Severn Wds. (E.D.S.) Chawm, a crevice, an earth-crack. |
▪ II. † chaum, v. Obs.
[phonetic variant of chawn v.: cf. prec.]
intr. To chap, crack, gape in fissures.
| 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 24 Chapping grounds, chinking, or chauming with Cranies. [Elsewhere also chaun.] |