Beclam

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To beclog with anything clammy or sticky. dialectal, transitive

    "In short I feel all over me like a bird whose plumage is beclammed and wings glued to its body with bird-lime."

Example

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"In short I feel all over me like a bird whose plumage is beclammed and wings glued to its body with bird-lime."

Etymology

From Middle English *beclammen, from Old English beclæmman, beclemman, from Proto-West Germanic *biklammjan, equivalent to be- + clam. Cognate with West Frisian beklamme, beklamje, Dutch beklemmen, German Low German beklemmen, German beklemmen.

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