Collow

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The black grime or soot of coal or burnt wood. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To make foul or dirty; begrime as with the smut of coal; blacken. transitive

Etymology

From Middle English *colwen, *colȝen (attested in colwed, colwinge), from Old English *colgian, from Proto-West Germanic *koligōn (“to make black as coal, blacken with coal”).

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