Adjective
(comparative more cloam, superlative most cloam)
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Of earthenware.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present cloams, present participle cloaming, simple past and past participle cloamed)
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle).
Origin
From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleim- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.
