caum

English

Verb

caum (third-person singular simple present caums, present participle cauming, simple past and past participle caumed)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To whiten with camstone.
    • 1891, Alex Lowson, Tales and Legends of Forfarshire
      The hearth is nicely caumed, the iron ribs of the grate shine like burnished steel […]
    • 1899, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (page 55)
      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.
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