glaum
1 synonym for glaum, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To reach out and try to grab something clumsily or weakly, often without being able to see.
Etymology
An alteration of dialectal clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), from Middle English *clammen, *clemmen, from Old English clæmman, clemman, from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan, from Proto-Germanic *klamjaną. In some of its senses it was probably influenced by clamber. Compare dialectal glaump, glamp (...
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