clemming

Even the middle classes suffered, and the poor could only meet such trouble by 'clemming' or self-starvation.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

Yet I would have thee look to this at least; that I took thee from poverty and pinching, and have reared thee as faithfully as ever mother did to child; clemming thee never, smiting thee not so oft, and but seldom cruelly.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

How they're clemming and starving poor weavers like me

The Sherat Weaver 1997

'Ay, dearie,' she would say, 'it is not much to look back upon except in an angel's sight, -- a poor old woman's life, who worked and struggled to keep her master and children from clemming.

Uncle Max Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

Hoo's just sinking away -- not for want o 'meat hersel' -- but because hoo cannot stand th 'sight o' the little ones clemming.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Yet not for his sake; for where'er he is, and whate'er, he'll ne'er know other clemming or cold again; but for the wife's sake, and the bits o 'childer.'

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

'It would tax my pride above a bit; if it were for mysel', I could stand a deal o 'clemming first; I'd sooner knock him down than ask a favour from him.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi 'clemming to know when they're put upon.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Hamper's -- that's where I worked -- makes their men pledge 'emselves they'll not give a penny to help th' Union or keep turnouts fro 'clemming.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Our business being, yo 'understand, to take the bated' wage, and be thankful, and their business to bate us down to clemming point, to swell their profits.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837