Definition of "clomb" [clomb]

• Archaic A past tense and a past participle of climb. (verb)

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• "Mamma was at the Willard waiting for "those darling children" to come, and when, much later than he was expected, "dear Paul" arrived alone and in a greatly perturbed state of mind, mother and son had considerable food for thought until the midnight car carried them back to Annapolis, where Paul "clomb" the wall at the water's edge and "snoke" into quarters (in Bancroft's vernacular) in the wee, sma 'hours, a weary, disgusted and unamiable youth."
• "Luckily some passers by noticed, and a man walked into the river and set upa branch for the koala to clomb back up and out."
• "Some while later he contemptuously clomb the knoll anew and preached in a voice filled with fulmination: "God consists of three potatoes and seven turnips which have been combined in an ingenious manner.""