clumb
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English clumben, from Middle English clumbon (“climbed”), plural past tense of climban (“to climb”). More at climb, clomb.
Verb
[edit]clumb
- (dialect) simple past of climb.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English clumben, yclumben, from Middle English ġeclumben (“climbed”), past participle of climban (“to climb”).
Verb
[edit]clumb
- alternative past participle of climb.