clamber
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈklæmbə/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈklæmbɚ/
Verb

clamber (clambers, present participle clambering; past and past participle clambered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To climb#Verb|climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion#Noun|fashion.
    The children clambered over the jungle gym.
    • 1626, Ovid, “Book X”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], Imprinted at London: [By William Stansby], OCLC 960102937 ↗, pages 199–200 ↗:
      Now, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares: / Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares; / Or leades the dogs, or clambers mountaines; led / By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed.
    • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: Printed for Nath[aniel] Ponder […], OCLC 228725984 ↗; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, OCLC 5190338 ↗, page 157 ↗:
      Then ſaid the Shepherds, Thoſe that you ſee lie daſhed in pieces at the bottom of this Mountain, are they: and they have continued to this day unburied (as you ſee) for an example to others to take heed how they clamber too high, or how they come too near the brink of this Mountain.
    • 1842, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VIII, in Zanoni. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Saunders & Otley, […], OCLC 1000397252 ↗, book the, page 296 ↗:
      She threaded the narrow path, she passed the gloomy vineyard that clambers up the rock, and gained the lofty spot, green with moss and luxuriant foliage, where the dust of him [{{w
    • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 879237670 ↗, page 4 ↗:
      He purchased his own boat, and made a home / For Annie, neat and nestlike, halfway up / The narrow street that clamber'd toward the mill.
    • 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], published 1896, OCLC 3807889 ↗, part V (At Aldbrickham and Elswhere), page 306 ↗:
      Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets!
    • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886 ↗; republished as “Jungle Battles”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914, OCLC 1224185 ↗, page 67 ↗:
      He would clamber about the roof and windows for hours attempting to discover means of ingress, but to the door he paid little attention, for this was apparently as solid as the walls.
    • 1917 November, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “A Deep-Sworn Vow”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses an a Play in Verse, Churchtown, Dundrum [Dublin]: The Cuala Press, OCLC 4474827 ↗, page 15 ↗:
      When I clamber to the heights of sleep, / Or when I grow excited with wine, / Suddenly I meet your face.
Translations Noun

clamber (plural clambers)

  1. The act#Noun|act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb#Noun|climb.



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