clomb

English

Verb

clomb

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of climb
   • 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost Book IV:

     Or as a Thief bent to unhoard the cash
     Of some rich Burgher, whose substantial doors,
     Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault,
     In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles;
     So clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fold:

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     From the sails the dew did drip— / Till clomb above the eastern bar / The hornèd Moon, with one bright star / Within the nether tip.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:

     […] But the captain arose and tightening his girdle tucked up his skirts and, after taking refuge with Allah from Satan the Stoned, clomb to the mast-head, whence he looked out right and left and gazing at the passengers and crew fell to buffeting his face and plucking out his beard.

Anagrams

• Bl. Com.