yelm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bundle of straw laid out straight, chiefly to be used for thatching; a helm.

   “Another useful implement of Mr. Williams' is his Patent Horse-rake. […] [A] ball working with the leverage of a handle keeps the teeth at their work, and is connected with the bar running underneath by a spring, and cannot lose the yealm.”

2. fiil To choose and lay out (straw) straight to be used for animal fodder or thatching; to helm.

   “Horses thrive particularly well upon it [furze], and are exceedingly lively and hearty in their work; but I have usually given it to them mixed with chaff, containing one part hay, and two parts straw, yelmed together, and cut by a chaff-cutter.”

3. fiil To choose and lay out straw straight to be used for animal fodder or thatching; to helm.

   “[T]wo or three women are busy ‘yelming’—i.e., separating the straw, selecting the longest and laying it level and parallel, damping it with water, and preparing it for the yokes.”