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[ klam-ber, klam-er ] / ˈklæm bər, ˈklæm ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR clamber ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with or without object)to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty. nounan act or instance of clambering. Origin of clamber1325–75; Middle English clambren, equivalent to clamb- (akin to climb) + -r--er6 + -en infinitive suffix OTHER WORDS FROM clamberclam·ber·er, nounWords nearby clamberclairvoyant, clam, clamant, clamatorial, clambake, clamber, clambering, clam diggers, clam-flat, clammy, clamor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for clamberThe paleontologists reached it via an hour-long clamber through an underground river. The challenge of dinosaur hunting in deep caves|John Pickrell|May 19, 2020|Science News For Students Just gaining entry was difficult, and in many cases firefighters had to clamber up and lower themselves through windows. Amazing Grace in the Bronx: Inside the Metro-North Train-Wreck Rescue|Michael Daly|December 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST We get down on all fours and clamber along a 40-foot fallen log. Exercising Like a Caveman: A.J. Jacobs Gets Primal|A.J. Jacobs|April 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST By a stroke of good fortune he collided in his flight with a tree; instinct made him clamber up; he did it awkwardly. The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies|Frank Worthington
In one of the breaches appeared a red kepis followed by legs of the same color trying to clamber over the ruins. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Vicente Blasco Ibanez She had used himself and his profession as a sort of social ladder whereby to clamber upward. The Brentons|Anna Chapin Ray At every step we had to clamber over fallen 105 trunks of trees, to the injury of our shins, which were almost always bleeding. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843)|Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied They ought to have seen to it that no one could clamber into the tower. King of Ranleigh|F. S. (Frederick Sadlier) Brereton
British Dictionary definitions for clamber
verb(usually foll by up, over, etc) to climb (something) awkwardly, esp by using both hands and feet nouna climb performed in this manner Derived forms of clamberclamberer, nounWord Origin for clamberC15: probably a variant of climb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to clamberclimb, scale, scramble |