cloam

English

Alternative forms

• clome, clomb

Etymology

From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.

Noun

cloam (usually uncountable, plural cloams)

1. (obsolete) Clay.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware.

Derived terms

• cloamen

Adjective

cloam (comparative more cloam, superlative most cloam)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Of earthenware.

Verb

cloam (third-person singular simple present cloams, present participle cloaming, simple past and past participle cloamed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make cloam.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle).

Derived terms

• cloamer

Anagrams

• Colma, comal