2. Noun. (context: Now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: Now chiefly dialectal) Of earthenware. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To make cloam. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloam
1. earthenware [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloam
Literary usage of Cloam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"cloam [tloa'm], sb. Crockery, earthenware. ... too fond of emptying o' cloam— fe
the cup; a mild though very frequent mode of describing a drunkard. ..."
2. Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"Now in the West of England in every cottage may be seen one of these "cloam " ovens.
It is in structure a bee-hive hut precisely. The old tradition hangs on ..."
3. Book of the West by Sabine Baring-Gould (1900)
"called cloam, in the West of England, a strong prejudice existed against it as
liable to damage the tin trade, and it was a popular cry to destroy all ..."
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