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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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lum house
noun
a type of shelter with a central chimney:
They took the man into their cramped black lum house in the forest ...
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barricade
etymology:
Scots
lum
‘a chimney’ + English
house
; attested by
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