clemmed การใช้

• Summoned to the court of King Richard III, he refused saying he would be " clemmed death ", that is, starved to death.
• Elizabeth Gaskell's novelistic chronicle of the Victorian underclass, where a character talks of being " clemmed to death, " meaning starved.
• On comforting the family, Hompes records, the " head of the family took hold of her arm and grasping it tightly, said, with tears in his eyes :'Aye, ma'am, but have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death ?'" This question is almost precisely repeated in the mouth of John Barton : " Han they ever seen a child o'their'n die for want o'food ? " in chapter 4.