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clomb

American  
[klohm] / kloʊm /

verb

Chiefly Eastern Virginia.
  1. simple past tense and past participle of climb.


clomb British  
/ kləʊm /

verb

  1. 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

I continued this till daylight in the morning, and how often I clomb up my tree and slid down I don't know, but I reckon at least a hundred times.

From A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. by Davy Crockett

Obedient, at their master's call, Fleet giants clomb the circling wall.

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

But the bear didn't come he only clomb up higher, and got out on a limb, which helped me to see him better.

From A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. by Davy Crockett

"We clomb it but at three miles in the hour."

From A Tangled Tale by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost

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