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▪ I. † clum, n.1 (int.) Obs.
Also 4 clom.
[Of uncertain origin: sense 2 may be related to rare OE. clumian to mutter, murmur.]
1. Silence, quiet.
1340Ayenb. 266 Yef ye me wylleþ y-here: habbeþ amang you clom and reste.
2. In the following, some take it as ‘a note of silence’: cf. mum! Others suggest that it represents the muttering or murmuring of the Paternoster.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 452 ‘Now, Pater noster, clum,’ quod Nicholay, And ‘clum,’ quod Jon, and ‘clum,’ quod Alisoun. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 34 All must be Mum: Clum quoth the Carpenter, Clum quoth the Carpenter's wife, and Clum quoth the Friar. 1616Bullokar, Clum, a note of silence [so Bailey 1721–1800].
▪ II. † clum, n.2 Obs. rare.
[App. a variant of clam n.1 3: cf. clum v.]
pl. Clutches, (= clams).
1567Turberv. Ovid's Epist. iii. B iv b, The Captaine shoulde detaine Thy Briseis from thy clummes. Ibid. xv. 89 Mightste thou at all from Paris clummes astart.
▪ III. † clum, clumme, a.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[cf. clum n.1]
a. Silent.
b. Sullen, glum.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) v. 522 Than farewele, consciens, he were clumme, I shuld haue all my wyll. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 38 He..lookes as red as a fox, clumme, and is more surly to be spoken with then euer he was before. [But some take this as = clum n.1 2, as if mum!]
▪ IV. clum, a.2
dial. Variant of clam a.1
1867Whitby Gloss., Clum, a clum heavy soil, hard to work upon. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., Clum, moist and adhesive, as old moss in a flower pot.
▪ V. † clum, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6 clomme.
[cf. clam v.3, clum n.2]
trans. To seize, clutch.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 77 Let weapons some against their leader clomme. 1598Herring's Tayle (N.) Some in their griping tallants clum a ball of brasse. 1883Hampshire Gloss., Clum, to handle roughly or clumsily. 1886Barnes Dorset Dial., Clum, to clutch roughly or clumsily.
▪ VI. clum, clumben, -yn, clummen, -in
obs. pa. pples. of climb v. |