cloam
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.
Noun edit
cloam (usually uncountable, plural cloams)
- (obsolete) Clay.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware.
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
cloam (comparative more cloam, superlative most cloam)
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Of earthenware.
Verb edit
cloam (third-person singular simple present cloams, present participle cloaming, simple past and past participle cloamed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make cloam.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle).