shawm

Borrowed from Old French chalemel (French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of chalumeau and probably caramel.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔːm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːm

shawm (plural shawms)

1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked,

     There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.

• zurna

• shawmist, shawmer

• hawms, whams