chillum

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃɪləm/

Definition of chillum

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
    “He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.”
    “The votaries should assemble at night and worship with flowers. The ganja should be washed in the manner in which people wash ganja for smoking. The worshipper must fill three chillums with equal quantities of ganja, observing due awe and reverence.”
    “Especially for him I’ve kept some hash that I had gotten from another sadhu, a piece of black Manali of passable quality. In my hotel-room I cut it in two pieces — each sufficient for one chilam (a hash-pipe, usually earthenware, in the shape of a bottleneck, that has to be held in two hands for smoking).”
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noun

  1. A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
    “He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.”
    “The votaries should assemble at night and worship with flowers. The ganja should be washed in the manner in which people wash ganja for smoking. The worshipper must fill three chillums with equal quantities of ganja, observing due awe and reverence.”
    “Especially for him I’ve kept some hash that I had gotten from another sadhu, a piece of black Manali of passable quality. In my hotel-room I cut it in two pieces — each sufficient for one chilam (a hash-pipe, usually earthenware, in the shape of a bottleneck, that has to be held in two hands for smoking).”
  2. The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani चिलम (cilam) / چِلَم (cilam), from Classical Persian چِلَم (čilam).

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