Talk:glam

RFV-failed senses

• "message, noise, din" (from Middle English, from Old Norse glam, glamr (“tinkling; noise; clash”)), which is supported only by a reference in w:Cleanness to "God's glam to him"
• "a clamp used in an old method of castrating horses"

Century also had the sense "a clam". - -sche (discuss) 22:25, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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RFV of etymologies 2 "message, noise" and 3 "clamp used in castrating horses". The copy of Century I'm looking at has etyl 2 with three Middle English quotations, but does not have etyl 3 at all. OTOH, it has an etyl 4 that we lack (but that I can't find citations of), "alternative form of clam". - -sche (discuss) 01:07, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Yu should drop a note on my wall. It's just a fluke that I happen to see this. As it is, the net is out at my house and I'm on borrowed time at the moment ... but I know that "message, noise" is a common gloss for it in texts about medieval poetry when the word comes up. I'll find one for yu later. If yu want to slap a "Middle English" header on it if that is what is bothering yu, then be my guest. Too many ghits on glam (after 1930) just to see if it made it past 1500.

For the clamp, it's found at Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Dictionary Supplement, Vol. XI, page 0526. On another note while yu're on that page: giv, n and v, a simplified spelling of give. … I put that here so that yu won't hav to look up the same page again when I make the entry for "giv". BTW, I'm not in in love with the clamp meaning. I only put it in because I found it by accident. It won't hurt my feelings any if yu take it out.--AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! (talk) 16:08, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 22:25, 11 October 2012 (UTC)