upclomb

English

Verb

upclomb

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of upclimb
    • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 109:
      [F]ar off, three mountaintops, / Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
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