Meanings
verbcaum (third-person singular simple present caums, present participle cauming, simple past and past participle caumed)
present singular third person caums · participle present cauming · participle past caumed · past caumed
- ScotlandtransitiveTo whiten with camstone.
The hearth is nicely caumed, the iron ribs of the grate shine like burnished steel […]
1891, Alex Lowson, Tales and Legends of Forfarshire1 more example
The centre of the kitchen was the well-caumed fireside, the saut girnel in the jambs, the goodman's seat between the lowe and the candle, and pussy bawdrons not far from the warmth of the ace.
1899, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, page 55
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