Meaning

2 senses

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To gutter (as a candle).

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To make cloam.

Origin

From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), f

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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Forms

cloams, cloaming, cloamed, cloamed
Base formcloam · to cloam
3rd person singularcloams
Present participlecloaming
Past simplecloamed
Past participlecloamed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycloam
he, she, itcloams

Past simpleLesson

all personscloamed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cloamed
he, she, ithas cloamed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cloam

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcloamer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
clitoriscloakC1cloakroomclobberclockA1
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