clayen

From Middle English cleyen, equivalent to clay +‎ -en. Cognate with Dutch kleien (“made of clay”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkleɪ̯.ən/
• Hyphenation: clay‧en
• Rhymes: -eɪən

clayen (not comparable)

1. Of clay; made of clay.
   • 1870, Richard Grant White, Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language, page 261:

     It is difficult to see why silveren should have been dropped, and brazen and golden retained. Better return to stonen and clayen and yarnen, than lose golden and its fellows.

   • 2016, Alice Morse Earle, Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth, Krill Press via PublishDrive, →ISBN:

     Encircling in turn the best bearing trees, they drank from “clayen-cups,” and poured part of the contents on the ground under the trees. And while they wassailed the trees they sang:— “Here's to thee, old Apple tree! Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow, And whence thou mayst bear Apples enow! Hats full! caps full, Bushel—Bushel—sacks full, And my pockets full too.”

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