different between clomp vs clomb

English

Alternative forms

• klomp

Etymology

From Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”), from Old Dutch *klumpo, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump, lump, mass; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb?- (“clamp, mass”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl?mp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kl?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

clomp (plural clomps)

1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

Translations

Verb

clomp (third-person singular simple present clomps, present participle clomping, simple past and past participle clomped)

1. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
2. (transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

Translations

Anagrams

• compl.

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.