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# clomb

verb, past tense of climb

«clomb» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Went up something, using hands and feet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used as a past tense; today we say "climbed." The sentences show the old form in place of "climbed."

### Examples

- \[Illustration: THE GLASSY HILL I CLOMB FOR THEE\] (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#x1)
- At seven years' end she got her iron shoon, clomb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the old washerwife's habitation. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#x2)
- “I cleaned the stable, I laved the lake, and I clomb the tree, And all for the love of thee, And thou wilt not waken and speak to me.” (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#x3)

### Note

Today: climbed.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clomb» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clomb» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/clomb.html) on Mova free.