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Clamber   /klˈæmbər/   Listen
Clamber

verb
(past & past part. clambered; pres. part. clambering)
1.
Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.  Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle.
noun
1.
An awkward climb.






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"Clamber" Quotes from Famous Books



... round and managed to clamber upon the roof, which was only four feet from the ground. But a brief trial served to convince our young adventurer that it is a good deal easier sliding down a roof than it is climbing up. The shingles ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger

... will see a line of blackish seaweed and wet sand appearing along the edge of the water, showing that the tide has turned and begun to recede. In an hour it has ebbed a considerable distance, and if we clamber down over the great weather-worn rocks the hardy advance guard of that wonderful world of life under the water is seen. Barnacles whiten the top of every rock which is reached by the tide, although the water ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... susceptible; it had raised him from the level of an unlettered laborer to stand on a starlit eminence, whither the philosophers of the earth, laden with the lore of universities, might vainly strive to clamber after him. So much for the intellect! But where was the heart? That, indeed, had withered,—had contracted.—had hardened,—had perished! It had ceased to partake of the universal throb, He had lost his hold of the magnetic chain ...
— Short-Stories • Various

... hour neither side would yield one point; but then at last the Egyptian began to show that, noble as he looked, he was made of stuff compressible. He gradually gave up, para by para, till he allowed donkeys, men, and women to clamber over the sides of his boat at the exact price named by him of the black coat. Never did the church have a ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... smooth platform upon which the pair could recline with the minimum of discomfort—and in that position he firmly lashed the two together with the lashings still attached to them. Then he helped Miss Trevor to get out of her life-buoy and clamber up on the top of the fragile structure; finding, to his satisfaction, when he had done so, that the raft possessed just enough buoyancy to support her comfortably, when reclining at full length upon it, ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood


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