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clooming

clooming is the present participle and gerund of cloom.

Meaning of cloom

Verb

cloom (third-person singular simple present clooms, present participle clooming, simple past and past participle cloomed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To close with glutinous matter.
    • If none of these ways will cause them to swarm, but that they lie forth ſtill, then rear the Hive enough to let them in, and cloom up the Skirts all but the Door1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Questions about clooming

What is clooming the present participle and gerund of?
Clooming is the present participle and gerund of cloom.

Words near clooming in the dictionary

  1. cloof
  2. cloofs
  3. Cloolthpitch
  4. cloom
  5. cloomed
  6. clooming
  7. clooms
  8. Cloonan
  9. Cloonans
  10. Clooney
  11. Clooneyesque

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