beclimb

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

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

1. (transitive, rare) To climb up, ascend.
   • 1858, George Martin Braune, The Persone of a Toun, page 80:

     Aforetime on his father's knee likewise
     This father fond beclomb'd with merry glee […]

   • 1868, The Spectator, volume 41, page 648:

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

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

     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.

   • 1926, Advertising Fortnightly, volume 7, page 30:

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