cleam

1) To smear or bedaub, often with sticky matter.

1620 for the stone payne take 2 ryebread toastes, toast them hote and clame them over with blacke sope and lay one all over the privities so hote as you ar able to abyde it, Brandsby

1686 Jeremiah Bairstow said that there was Antichrist cleamed upon every post at London and that they was all up in armes at Wakefield.

dates 1620 1686

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