beclimb

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verb

To climb up, ascend.

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Meanings

verbbeclimb (third-person singular simple present beclimbs, present participle beclimbing, simple past and past participle beclimbed)

present singular third person beclimbs · participle present beclimbing · participle past beclimbed · past beclimbed

  1. raretransitiveTo climb up, ascend.

    The stonen stairs beclimbed the mound, Ere father put a foot to ground […]

    1868, The Spectator, volume 41, page 648
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    Aforetime on his father's knee likewise This father fond beclomb'd with merry glee […]

    1858, George Martin Braune, The Persone of a Toun, page 80

    In the inland distance the land heaves northward and west-ward into soft-outlined hills, which culminate between those points in the lordly Head of Lugnaquilla, much beclimbed of tourists to Glenmalure.

    1894, The New Ireland Review, volumes 1-2, page 513

    The most historic and beclimbed rock of all was the Old Man of the Mountain.

    1926, Advertising Fortnightly, volume 7, page 30

Origin

From be- (“on, upon”) + climb. Compare Dutch beklimmen (“to climb up, mount, scale”).

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