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clim verb Past-tense of climb.
1861 Mason CW Letter 177 The yankes threw ter guns down and some clum trees. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 106 The bear clim a tree purty fur. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) So I crossed the river and clim out on the east side of the river and came out, I guess, a half a mile and couldn’t hear nothing. 1953 Hall Coll (Bryson City NC) [A bear] went around the hill, clim up a birch tree. 1978 Reese Speech NE Tenn 172 clim = attested by 6/12 (50%) speakers; clum = attested by 3/12 (25%) speakers.