clomb

American

[klohm] / kloʊm /

verb

Chiefly Eastern Virginia.

simple past tense and past participle of climb.

clomb British

/ kləʊm /

verb

archaic a past tense and past participle of climb

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Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language and tricks of speech, but poetic words as well: whist, clomb, darnelled.

From Time Magazine Archive

So they clomb the dyke, and as they topped it they saw a weaponed man on his feet betwixt them and the sky.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

Nearer it draws to where those low rocks ail, Warm rocks on which some water-snake hath clomb To bask its spotted body, coiling numb.—

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison

All day long we slowly clomb the lofty heights which at evening were robed in azure, rose, and violet.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole

They clomb that hill that towers on high Like a huge cloud in autumn's sky, Where many a cavern yawns, and streaks Of radiant silver deck the peaks.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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