English Explanatory Dictionary

cloam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Clay.
  2. Earthenware.
adj
  1. Made of earthenware.
verb
  1. To make cloam.
  2. To gutter (as a candle).

Word forms

cloam cloams clome clomb more cloam most cloam cloaming cloamed

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.

Derived words

cloamen cloam oven cloamer
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