Shawm
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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.
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A medieval and Renaissance wind instrument, forerunner of the oboe, with a double reed enclosed in a wooden mouthpiece, and having a penetrating tone.
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