Meaning

1 senses
  1. (dialectal)Made of earthenware.

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

more cloam, most cloam
Comparativemore cloam Lesson
Superlativemost cloam Lesson

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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