CLAMBERING

Verb

clambering

present participle of clamber

Noun

clambering (plural clamberings)

The act of one who clambers.

It was his hope that he should find something of archieologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.

Source: Wiktionary


CLAMBER

Clam"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clambered; p. pr. & vb. n. Clambering.] Etym: [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. Clamp, Climb.]

Definition: To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

Clam"ber, n.

Definition: The act of clambering. T. Moore.

Clam"ber, v. t.

Definition: To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

14 March 2025

PARASITISM

(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

coffee icon