cloam

== English == === Alternative forms === clome, clomb === Etymology === 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. === Noun === cloam (usually uncountable, plural cloams) (obsolete) Clay. (now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware. ==== Derived terms ==== === Adjective === cloam (comparative more cloam, superlative most cloam) (now chiefly dialectal) Made of earthenware. === Verb === cloam (third-person singular simple present cloams, present participle cloaming, simple past and past participle cloamed) (transitive, obsolete) To make cloam. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle). ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === COMAL, Colma, comal, OCaml