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CLAMBER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An awkward climb

Example:

reaching the crest was a real clamber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("clamber" is a kind of...):

climb; mount (the act of climbing something)

Derivation:

clamber (climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Synonyms:

clamber; scramble; shin; shinny; skin; sputter; struggle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "clamber" is one way to...):

climb (move with difficulty, by grasping)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

clamber (an awkward climb)

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 Context examples: 

He clambered up and down stairs, and went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea, holding on to the walls as he went for support and breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He swam directly to the beach and clambered out into a small opening between two harems, the masters of which made warning noises but did not attack him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He clambered up and waved his arms in the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Norbury tugged thrice with all his strength upon the cord, and then lowered himself over the edge, while a hundred anxious faces peered over at him as he slowly clambered downwards to the end of the rope.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of the four who had scaled the palisade, one only remained unaccounted for, and he, having left his cutlass on the field, was now clambering out again with the fear of death upon him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Joe Berks, who had grown noisier and more quarrelsome as the evening went on, tried to clamber across the table, with horrible blasphemies, to come to blows with an old Jew named Fighting Yussef, who had plunged into the discussion.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“So we must get ashore without swimming, in some opening between the rocks through which we can drive the boat and clamber out. But we must be quick, most quick—and sure.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I clambered to the edge of the pit and looked over.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)