clumb

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

From Middle English clumben, from Middle English clumbon (“climbed”), plural past tense of climban (“to climb”). More at climb, clomb.

Verb

clumb

1. (dialect) simple past of climb.
   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.

Etymology 2

From Middle English clumben, yclumben, from Middle English ġeclumben (“climbed”), past participle of climban (“to climb”).

Verb

clumb

1. alternative past participle of climb.