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Climber

noun

A vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants.

Someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior. Synonym: social climber.

Someone who ascends on foot. Synonym: mounter.

Someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains.

An iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing. Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon.

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"Climber" Quotes from Famous Books

... a splendid tree-climber. It can mount a tree with the agility of a cat; and although so large an animal, it climbs by means of its claws—not by hugging, after the manner of the bears and opossums. While climbing a tree, its claws can be heard crackling along the bark as it mounts upward. It sometimes ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... time had come. Badshah's trunk shot out and caught the climber's ankle. The Chinaman was plucked from the face of the cliff and hurled to the ground. A frenzied shriek burst from him as the tusk was driven into his shuddering body, which in an instant was trodden to a bloody pulp. Muriel hid her face against her lover, but the ...

— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly

... Apperthwaite's capacious yard. In the rear I found an old-fashioned rose-garden—the bushes long since bloomless and now brown with autumn—and I paced its gravelled paths up and down, at the same time favoring Mr. Beasley's house with a covert study that would have done credit to a porch-climber, for the sting of my blunder at the table was quiescent, or at least neutralized, under the itch of a curiosity far from satisfied concerning the interesting premises next door. The gentleman in the ...

— Beasley's Christmas Party • Booth Tarkington

... a trained athlete, and a skillful climber as well, and, difficult as the ascent proved to be for him, he managed it, and clambered over the sill of the window and into the room, breathless, but ...

— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart

... borrowed a ladder from Mr. Man, and when Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Badger said they could not come Mr. Fox remembered that he was not much of a climber himself and that if he did not keep that ladder he might have a hard time getting into his home when he was ...

— Sandman's Goodnight Stories • Abbie Phillips Walker

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