different between clomb vs coomb

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): /ku?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom (“tub, cistern”)), from Old English cumb (“a vessel; a liquid measure”), from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl, vessel”). Compare German Kumpf (“bowl”).

Alternatively, perhaps from Latin cumba (“boat, tomb of stone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kúmb?, “hollow of a vessel, cup, boat”).

Noun

coomb (plural coombs)

1. An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.

Alternative forms

• comb

Etymology 2

From Old English cumb, from Proto-Brythonic (compare Welsh cwm), from Proto-Celtic *kumb?.

Noun

coomb (plural coombs)

1. Alternative spelling of combe

Anagrams

• combo