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Cloam sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cloam sb. Obs. exc. s. w. dial. Forms: 1 clám, [5 clome, 7 cloame, in the verb], 8 cloume, 7–9 clome, 9 (clomb), cloam; see also CLOOM. [OE. clám mud, clay, corresp. to MDu. cleem clay, potter’s clay:—WGer. *klaim, a derivative, with -m suffix, of klĭ- to daub, smear (root of CLAY); cf. ON. kleima, OHG. chleimen, MDu. clêmen to daub, besmear.] In O.E. Mud, clay. Hence, in mod. dial. use: Earthenware, clay.

1 c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., I. 84. Wyrc swa [the ingredients] to clame.

2 c. 1000.  Ælfric, Exod. i. 14. Mid heardum weorcum clames and tiʓelan.

3 1659.  Clobery, Div. Glimpses, 95. Season thy new-made clome with sipid liquor.

4 1746.  Exmoor Scolding (E. D. S.), 52.

5 a. 1819.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Poems, Wks. 159 (D.). Now, zester Nan, by this yow zee … What’s cheny thoft is clome.

6 1865.  R. Hunt, Pop. Romances W. Eng., Ser. I. 96. A set of cheene [china] and lots of beautiful clome.

7 1881.  Blackmore, Christowell, iv. He spied … certain letters, invisible until the cloam was wetted.

8   b.  attrib. or adj.

9 1750.  R. Pococke, Trav. (Cornw.) (1888), 135. Cloume ovens … are earthen ware of several sizes, like an oven, and being heated they stop ’em up and cover ’em over with embers to keep in the heat.

10 1827.  Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 1652. Earthenware shops … are called … clome or clomen shops … in Devon.

11 1862.  H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, I. i. 4–5 (D.). That should depend on the pitcher, whether it were iron or clomb.

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