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# clomb

«clomb» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **climbed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

climbed

### part of speech

verb, past tense of climb

### meaning for a pupil

Went up something, using hands and feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used as a past tense; today we say "climbed." The sentences show the old form in place of "climbed."

### examples

- [Illustration: THE GLASSY HILL I CLOMB FOR THEE] (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#x1)
- At seven years' end she got her iron shoon, clomb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the old washerwife's habitation. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#x2)
- “I cleaned the stable, I laved the lake, and I clomb the tree, And all for the love of thee, And thou wilt not waken and speak to me.” (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/#x3)

### tests

manual 6; corpora 14 (Torah 0, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clomb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clomb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.