cloam
EarthenwareEarthenware.
Meaning
2 senses(dialectal, uncountable, usually)Earthenware.
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)Clay.
Origin
From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), fFrom 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
plural: cloamsWord family
1 related wordsDerivedcloamen
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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