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cloam

cloam noun: clay.

Noun

cloam (usually uncountable, plural cloams)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Clay.
  2. (dialectal, usually) Earthenware.

Adjective

cloam (comparative more cloam, superlative most cloam)

  1. (dialectal) Made of earthenware.

Verb

cloam (third-person singular simple present cloams, present participle cloaming, simple past and past participle cloamed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make cloam.
  2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To gutter (as a candle).

Forms of cloam

Noun
pluralcloams
alternative formclome
alternative formclomb
Adjective
comparativemore cloam
superlativemost cloam
Verb
third-person singular presentcloams
present participlecloaming
past participlecloamed
pastcloamed

Origin of cloam

From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.

Words formed from cloam

Phrases with cloam

Questions about cloam

What does cloam mean?
Cloam means clay.
What part of speech is cloam?
Cloam can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
What is the plural of cloam?
The plural of cloam is cloams.

Words near cloam in the dictionary

  1. cloakroom attendant
  2. cloakroom attendants
  3. cloakrooms
  4. cloaks
  5. cloakwise
  6. cloam
  7. cloam oven
  8. cloam ovens
  9. cloamed
  10. cloamen
  11. cloamer

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