The AI-powered English dictionary
plural chillums
A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood. quotations examples
He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, page 521
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.
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
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).
2007, Dolf Hartsuiker, Holy Smoke
The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls. examples