simple past tense and past participle of helm

Wearing a helm.

A surname from German.

(nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to control the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.

(nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel). / (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).

(archaic or poetic) A helmet. / (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”) / (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.

(obsolete); (transitive, archaic or poetic) To cover (a head) with a helmet; to provide (someone) with a helmet; to helmet.

(countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.

(transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.

The only named wind in the British Isles. It blows westward from the Pennine fells over Cumbria and is often accompanied by a line of clouds on top of the hills called the Helm Bar.