chillum

== English == === Alternative forms === cheelam, chelam, chilam, chillam, tchilim === Etymology === Borrowed from Hindustani चिलम (cilam) / چِلَم (cilam), from Classical Persian چِلَم (čilam). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪləm/ === Noun === chillum (plural chillums) A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood. c. 1893, "Note by Babu Abhilas Chandra Mukerji, second Inspector of Excise, on the Origin and History of Trinath Worship in Eastern Bengal", in Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4 The votaries should assemble at night and worship with flowers. The ganja should be washed in the manner in which people wash ganja for smoking. The worshipper must fill three chillums with equal quantities of ganja, observing due awe and reverence. The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls. ==== Derived terms ==== chubbler === Further reading === Chillum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Category:Chillums on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “chillum”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 195.