Definitions for chillum
chillum

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1. chillumnoun

   A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or more rarely, wood and 100-150 mm long and 25-35 mm wide at the mouth.

2. Etymology: चिलम, from چلم. Rastafarian.

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1. Chillum

   A chillum, or chilam, is a straight conical pipe with end-to-end channel, traditionally made of clay and used since at least the 18th century by wandering Hindu monks, known as sadhus in India. It was invented in India. The culture of owning and smoking in a chillum has spread from India to the world since the mid-1960s. According to Alfred Dunhill, Africans have long employed chillum-style pipes for smoking cannabis and later tobacco. Gourds and various horns were often employed while conical bowls were common in Uganda. One of the more famous pipes is an ivory cone pipe once belonging to "Waganda" monarch King Mtesa. More recently, it has also seen use in sacraments by Rastafarians. Since the 1960s the embellished bamboo chillum has become an American folk art form. These pipes are handmade and often sold by the artists on street corners in places like the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and the Greenwich Village area of New York City. As designs these contemporary smoking pipes recall traditional decorated bamboo pipes from Borneo, however, the American carved bamboo design often employs a brass lighting fixture for a bowl. Since the 1970s, street artist Darrel "Pipeman" Mortimer of San Francisco has made nearly 10,000 such pipes, each signed, numbered and sold personally.

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1. Chillum

   chil′um, n. the part of a hookah containing the tobacco and charcoal balls: a hookah itself: the act of smoking it. [Hind. chilam.]

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chillum in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chillum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of chillum in a Sentence

1. Chief Marc Bashoor:

   Accidents like Chillum Road are difficult for everyone, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the injured and deceased.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chillum
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=chillum
3. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=chillum