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cloam.

Clay.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. Clay.

    obsolete · uncountable · usually

  2. Earthenware.

    dialectal · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

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-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.

adj

  1. Made of earthenware.

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

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-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.

verb

  1. To make cloam.

    obsolete · transitive

  2. To gutter (as a candle).

    UK · dialectal · intransitive
Where this word comes from

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-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.

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