Examples of “clem” in a Sentence

verb (dialect, chiefly northern English) To go hungry or starve.

• Who are half clemmed from year’s end to year’s end, and see no close to it, no hope, no finish but the pauper’s deals! — Stanley J. Weyman, IX. Old Things (1919)
• In the old mill towns, families would clem through the worst winters.
• He'd rather clem than beg for scraps.