beclam
English
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.
Verb
beclam (third-person singular simple present beclams, present participle beclamming, simple past and past participle beclammed)
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To beclog with anything clammy or sticky.
- 1889, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters from the Lake Poets, page 172:
- In short I feel all over me like a bird whose plumage is beclammed and wings glued to its body with bird-lime.
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Anagrams
- becalm, malbec