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单词 cleam
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cleamclemev.

Forms: Old English clǽman, [Middle English iclemen], Middle English cleme, (Middle English clemme). modern dialect1700s–1800s cleam, clame, claim, clem.
Etymology: Old English clǽman , corresponding to Middle Dutch kleemen , clêmen , Old High German chleimen , Old Norse kleima , to daub, plaster, fashion in clay < Old Germanic *klaimjan , < klaimo- , in Old English clám ‘cloam’, potter's clay, mud. (Old English had also the compound geclǽman , in early Middle English iclêmen .) Supplanted in southern use in 14–15th cent. by clam v.1 But cleam is retained in some Yorkshire dialect, and the clame, claim, of adjacent dialects, are apparently archaic pronunciations of cleam.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1.
a. transitive. To smear, anoint, bedaub, plaster; to rub, or daub (sticky matter) on, or (a place) with sticky matter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance
smear971
dechea1000
cleamc1000
besmearc1050
clamc1380
glue1382
pargeta1398
overslame?1440
plaster?1440
beslab1481
strike1525
bestrike1527
streak1540
bedaub1558
spread1574
daub1598
paste1609
beplaster1611
circumlite1657
oblite1657
fata1661
gaum?1825
treacle1839
butter1882
slap1902
slather1941
nap1961
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance > smear (a substance)
cleamc1000
smeara1400
spread?a1425
strike1525
splet1530
dab1592
stroke1594
sponge1607
daub1647
wipe1738
plaster1799
teerc1850
slather1866
cake1944
a1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Iclem hall þ[e] seames mid tirwan.
a1000 B. Thorpe tr. Ælfric Homilies I. 20 Geclæm ealle ða seamas mid tyrwan.]
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxviii. 165 Lino, ic clæme.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 110 Clæm on ðone cancer, ne do nan wæter to.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 93 Crist clemed [v.r. clammyde] cley on his eyen.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 312 Make to þe a mancioun..þenne clemme hit with clay comly withinne.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 125 Cleme uppon the wounde oxe dounge aboute.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 50 The Cream of Milk, which may be clamed or spread as Butter.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 321 Clame, to spread unctuous matter; as salve on a plaster, butter on bread.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 31 Clame, to spread or smear on a surface, as lime..or butter.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (E.D.S.) Claim.
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) Cleam..‘Cleam me a buttershaave’, spread me a slice of bread and butter.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Clamme or clame.
b. intransitive. [To adhere, stick to.] N.E.D.'s reading ‘cleame’ is based on an earlier version of this quotation:
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere
cleavec897
to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a burc1330
sita1398
clinga1400
clengec1400
engleim?1440
adhere1557
clag1563
clasp1569
clencha1600
clung1601
clam1610
yclingec1620
affix1695
clinch1793
to stick (to one) like wax1809
cleam-
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 112 If they should ramme it [sc. a clay floor] presently it would cleave to the beater.
2. transitive. To agglutinate, cause to stick, clag with glutinous matter; to stick up, together, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > cause to cohere
binda1000
cleama1340
coagulec1400
congeal1563
coagulate1610
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xliii. 27 [xliv. 25] Clemyd is in erthe oure wambe.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lxvi. 185 Of clemyng of humour that is there.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. lxxiii. sig. ll.i/2 Butter is kyndely hote and moyste: clemynge [a1398 BL Add. clensyng] & fatte.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 10 To Cleam..in Lincolnshire..to glue together, to fasten with glue.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Clamm..in some provinces to cleam [1818 Todd (adds) written also sometimes clem], to clog with any glutinous matter.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 31 To clame, to stick, to cause to adhere, as paper against a wall; clamed up, advertised or posted.
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Cleam..‘the wind was so strong that it cleam'd me to the wall’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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