Obs. [app. a dial. form of CLOAM sb.: 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.
