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clomb |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Climbed} (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar {Clomb} (kl[o^]m); p. pr & vb n. {Climbing}.] [AS. climban akin to OHG. chlimban G. & D. klimmen Icel. kl[=i]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day --Dryden. 3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Clomb \Clomb\, Clomben \Clomb"en\, imp. & p. p. of {Climb} (for climbed). [Obs.] The sonne, he sayde, is clomben up on hevene. --Chaucer.
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