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come verb Past tense of come. [OED dates this usage from the 14th century]
1790 Lenoir Papers [I] stayd there tell Friday and then i come to Mr. Benj. Birds. 1834 Crockett Narrative 156 I put in, and waded on till I come to the channel, where I crossed that on a high log. 1863 Bradshaw CW Letters (Feb 2) he aught to have given the rest of us furlows and let him a wated untill his turn come. 1910 Cooke Power and Glory We had to find money for the undertaker, when he come to lay her out. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) He just laid his gun down, went right in with the dogs, and here come the bear down the tree just jumping down thataway. 1954 GSMNP-19:5 All at once something come dashing in a dark thicket. It may have been a bear, but I thought it was a wolf or something or other. I heard some funny scream, and I went up a tree. 1990 Matewan OHP-73 They wasn't no doctors that come out.