different between clomb vs clumb

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??m/

Verb

clomb

1. (archaic) simple past tense 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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?m/

Etymology 1

From Middle English clumben, from Middle English clumbon (“climbed”), plural past tense of climban (“to climb”). More at climb, clomb.

Verb

clumb

1. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of climb.
   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII

     It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.

Etymology 2

From Middle English clumben, yclumben, from Middle English ?eclumben (“climbed”), past participle of climban (“to climb”).

Verb

clumb

1. alternative past participle of climb.