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 →

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 →
• 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 →
• “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 →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.