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mountaineer|maʊntɪˈnɪə(r)|
Also 7 -ier, -tanier, -taneer, -tineer.
[f. mountain + -eer1.
Cf. mountainer and OF. montagnier, montainier adj., mountain-dwelling.]
1. A native of or dweller amongst mountains. Also attrib. as adj.
1610Shakes. Temp. iii. iii. 44 When wee were Boyes Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres, Dew-lapt [etc.]. 1625Tuke Conc. Holy Eucharist 6 That Mountineer, Michah of Ephraim. 1630Drayton Muses' Elysium Nymphal ii. 10 This Cleon was a Mountaineer. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor., Happy Life xvii. (1696) 268 The Mountanier makes the best Soldier. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 277 We saw several huts of the mountaineer inhabitants. 1821Byron Two Foscari iii. i, The longing sorrow Of the sad mountaineer when far away. 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 91 The Mountaineer is characteristically hardy,..a lover of freedom, a patriot.
2. A member of the ‘Mountain’ (see mountain 6).
1802Sketch of Paris II. liii. 197 The montagnards or mountaineers, that is, those monsters who were always thirsting for blood. 1827Scott Napoleon Introd., Wks. 1870 IX. 263 The Mountaineers, his former associates.
3. One skilled or occupied in mountain climbing.
1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 116, I had improved as a mountaineer since my ascent of Mont Blanc. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 221 The experienced mountaineer may have a rough and romantic walk by descending along the side of the Comb Gill ravine.
Hence mountaiˈneer v. intr., to be a mountain climber; usually in vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1803Southey Lett. (1856) I. 247 My mountaineering recollections are to come in the next book. 1862Tyndall (title), Mountaineering in 1861. 1890Dickens' Dict. Lond. 23/2 The mountaineering qualification of the club is a severe one. 1892C. T. Dent Mountaineering ii. 61 Those who mountaineer in regions where the heights are undetermined must not depend on aneroids alone. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 582, I wish I had got the mountaineering spirit. |