n. A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or more rarely, wood and 100-150 mm long and 25-35 mm wide at the mouth.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The part of a prepared hookah which contains the tobacco and fire, used by itself by poor people who cannot afford the luxury of a hookah. Fallon. Also chilam.
Word Usage
"Savary, &c. Masson describes a "chillum," or smoking apparatus, found embedded in an ancient wall in Beloochistan."