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beclam

beclam verb: to beclog with anything clammy or sticky.

Verb

beclam (third-person singular simple present beclams, present participle beclamming, simple past and past participle beclammed)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To beclog with anything clammy or sticky.
    • In short I feel all over me like a bird whose plumage is beclammed and wings glued to its body with bird-lime.1889, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters from the Lake Poets, page 172

Forms of beclam

third-person singular presentbeclams
present participlebeclamming
past participlebeclammed
pastbeclammed

Origin of beclam

From Middle English *beclammen, from Old English beclæmman, beclemman, from Proto-West Germanic *biklammjan, equivalent to be- + clam. Cognate with West Frisian beklamme, beklamje, Dutch beklemmen, German Low German beklemmen, German beklemmen.

Questions about beclam

What does beclam mean?
Beclam means to beclog with anything clammy or sticky.
What part of speech is beclam?
Beclam is a verb.
What is the past tense of beclam?
The past tense of beclam is beclammed.

Words near beclam in the dictionary

  1. Beckwourth
  2. Becky
  3. Beckys
  4. beclabuvir
  5. beclad
  6. beclam
  7. beclamide
  8. beclammed
  9. beclamming
  10. beclamor
  11. beclamored

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