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/klˈaɪmɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Climb v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

Climb v. i. (past & past part. climbed, obs. or vulgar clomb; pres. part. climbing)

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. "Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day."

(Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

Climbing v. P. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.

Climbing fern. See under Fern.

Climbing perch. (Zool.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.

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Etymology of 'Climbing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Climbing" Quotes from Famous Books

... consists of one main street, or rather a main staircase, with a few houses climbing on each side of the combe so far as the narrow space allows. The houses, each standing on a higher or lower level than its neighbour, are all whitewashed, with gay green ...

— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... Then, climbing slowly upward into darkness, the light, falling now across her body, now athwart her skirt, gilded at last the heels of her shoes; suddenly she was gone; then stars glittered through the meshes of the shadowy, twitching ladder which still barred the open port. And finally the ladder was pulled ...

— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... about, avoiding patches of light, a thrill like fear flooded him. With a stifled exclamation he leaped up and retraced his steps to the higher level, climbing with the assurance and agility of ...

— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

... possible angle of his road he contrives to break off, and hence he has never yet reached the end of a day's journey. Unlike Christian in the "Pilgrim," he welcomes every temptation to go astray—and, not content with shaking hands with old Worldly Wiseman, he must, before climbing Mount Difficulty, explore both the way of Danger and that of Destruction. It may be inquired, if this arise from the fertility or from the frailty of his genius—from his knowledge of, and dominion over every province of thought, or from his natural or acquired ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... the range, and the sun was sinking. But the worst of it all was that there were several miles of rough and strange country between me and Grand Lake that would have to be made in the dark. I did not care to take any more chances on the ice, so I spent a hard hour climbing out of the canon. The climb warmed me and set ...

— Wild Life on the Rockies • Enos A. Mills

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