clem

To be hungry; starve.

"[…] Here he's back home again, and without work, and without a penny, and thou knows t' little one and I were pretty well clemmed to death when thou got us a bit o' bread and meat last night. We were that!"

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!

A brick or stone.

One stone (unit of mass).

A testicle.

Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”).