cloom

present singular third person clooms · participle present clooming · participle past cloomed · past cloomed

1. obsoletetransitiveTo close with glutinous matter.

   If none of these ways will cause them to swarm, but that they lie forth ſtill, then rear the Hive enough to let them in, and cloom up the Skirts all but the Door

   1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

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   There also were wicker skeps or hives, and these were cloomed. This meant that they were banked with a mixture of dirt and cow manure to protect them from the weather and the cold

   1965, Murray Hoyt, The World of Bees