▪ I. † cloom, n. Obs.
[app. a dial. form of cloam n.: cf. dial. loom for loam, and obs. Room for Rome.]
Adhesive mud or clay.
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 41 Keep the Hives always close..The best Cloom, for that purpose, is made of neats dung. a 1618 Sylvester Letanies, Lord's Pr. xix. Wks. (1641) 661 To breake and bruise them like a clod Of earth or cloome. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. ix. §3 (1681) 184 Wiker-Hives made with spleets of Wood, and daubed with Cow-cloom tempered for that purpose. |
▪ II. † cloom, v. Obs.
[f. cloom n.: practically a (? dial.) variant of cloam v.]
trans. To daub or plaster with adhesive mud.
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 41 margin, The Hives always close cloomed. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 189 Cloom up the skirts all but the door. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Bee, The Way is to cloom the Hives very close. |