hauled

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And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains� The Oriental Giles.

From Time Magazine Archive

The seeds having been sown too thickly, the bases of the haulms, owing to the etiolation and consequent lack of carbohydrates, suffer from want of stiffening tissues, and the top-heavy plants fall over.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

The grass on which it was standing was still rather dark, and only the highest haulms displayed heavy drops of dew, while the breaking dawn was reflected in the brute's smooth yellow-black spotted body.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

Presently the tinder was ignited, and the Broom-Squire blew it and held dry grass haulms to the glowing embers till a blue flame danced up, became yellow, and burst into a flare.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The sticks and haulms were removed after the passage of the four stolons, two of which were found to have assumed a permanently sinuous shape, and two were still straight.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles