Meanings
clumb1
- dialectalpastsimple past of climb.
It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.
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
clumb2
- alternativeparticiplepastalternative past participle of climb.
Origin
clumb · verb
- Old Englishclumbon“climbed”
- Middle Englishclumben
- Englishclumb
From Middle English clumben, from Old English clumbon (“climbed”), plural past tense of climban (“to climb”). More at climb, clomb.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →clumb · verb
- Middle Englishġeclumben“climbed”
- Middle Englishclumben
- Englishclumb
From Middle English clumben, yclumben, from Middle English ġeclumben (“climbed”), past participle of climban (“to climb”).
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Rhymes with clumb
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Cite this entry
clumb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clumb
“clumb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clumb. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clumb,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clumb.
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