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A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.

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  1. n. A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
  2. n. a medieval oboe
  3. A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.
  4. A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to haveresembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written alsoshalm, shaum.] Otway.Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.