Meaning of chillum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
2. The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls.

Examples

“He could not think⟳ of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.”

“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.”

“Especially for him I’ve kept some hash that I had gotten from another sadhu, a piece of black Manali of passable quality. In my hotel-room I cut⟳ it in two pieces — each sufficient for one chilam (a hash-pipe, usually earthenware, in the shape⟳ of a bottleneck, that has to be held in two hands for smoking).”

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