Comparative form of 'haulmy'; more resembling or consisting of haulm (the stems or stalks of grain plants).
From 'haulm' (Middle English from Old Norse 'halmr,' meaning straw or stalks) plus the comparative suffix '-ier'. The root word has been used since medieval times to describe the dry stalks of harvested grain.
Haulm is a beautiful but nearly dead word—farmers used to talk about haulmy fields constantly, but now we've replaced it with 'stubble' or 'straw.' It's a word that literally faded from use as agricultural vocabulary modernized.
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