Word.ws English Dictionary

cauming

cauming is the present participle and gerund of caum.

Meaning of caum

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

Questions about cauming

What is cauming the present participle and gerund of?
Cauming is the present participle and gerund of caum.

Words near cauming in the dictionary

  1. cauls
  2. Caulton
  3. caum
  4. cauma
  5. caumed
  6. cauming
  7. caums
  8. caumstone
  9. caumstones
  10. caunch
  11. caunches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cauming (page history and authors); caum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cauming.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cauming. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.