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caum

caum verb: to whiten with camstone.

Verb

caum (third-person singular simple present caums, present participle cauming, simple past and past participle caumed)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To whiten with camstone.
    • The hearth is nicely caumed, the iron ribs of the grate shine like burnished steel […]1891, Alex Lowson, Tales and Legends of Forfarshire
    • The centre of the kitchen was the well-caumed fireside, the saut girnel in the jambs, the goodman's seat between the lowe and the candle, and pussy bawdrons not far from the warmth of the ace.1899, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, page 55

Forms of caum

third-person singular presentcaums
present participlecauming
past participlecaumed
pastcaumed

Questions about caum

What does caum mean?
Caum means to whiten with camstone.
What part of speech is caum?
Caum is a verb.
What is the past tense of caum?
The past tense of caum is caumed.

Words near caum in the dictionary

  1. caulosphere
  2. caulospheres
  3. caulotaxis
  4. cauls
  5. Caulton
  6. caum
  7. cauma
  8. caumed
  9. cauming
  10. caums
  11. caumstone

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