culm
- n stem of plants of the Gramineae
- Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre, on the Susquehanna River.
- Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm .
- The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin.