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Climber

noun

A vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants.

Someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior. Synonym: social climber.

Someone who ascends on foot. Synonym: mounter.

Someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains.

An iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing. Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon.

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"Climber" Quotes from Famous Books

... pole, and then walk along upon that a little way till he could gather up the reins. Then he thought that if he could get back again with them to the driver's seat, perhaps he could stop the horses. Marco was an expert climber. He had learned this art in his gymnasium at New York; so that he had no fears in respect to his being able to get down and back again. The only danger was, lest he might frighten the horses again and set them ...

— Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont • Jacob Abbott

... exist and flourish, and under conditions which do not usually even bring them into competition with each other. The black rat (Mus rattus) is smaller than the other, but more active and a better climber; he is the rat of the barn and the granary. The brown or Norway rat (Mus decumanus) is larger but less active, a burrower rather than a climber, and though both rats are omnivorous the brown rat is more especially a scavenger; he is ...

— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... claim. The crown of motherhood is pain. To serve the State at cost of ease and leisure; to spend his thought and labour upon a hundred schemes, is the man's ambition. Life is doing, not having. It is to gain the peak the climber strives, not to possess it. Fools marry thinking what they are going to get out of it: good store of joys and pleasure, opportunities for self-indulgence, eternal soft caresses— the wages of the wanton. The rewards of marriage are toil, duty, responsibility—manhood, ...

— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome

... the reckless climber, and then, seeing the approaching visitors, came forward to greet them. She invited Miss Margery and Anne into the front room where her mother sat at a sewing-machine that was running like a race-horse. Mrs. Callahan shook hands and then ...

— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin

... overgrown with creeping plants, yellow convolvulus, tropaeolum, and a charming little climber like canariensis. On each side is a gate built of balks of timber, and so heavy that it must run on wheels. This gate is always shut at nightfall, so that no one can enter the village unknown to the watchman, who is ...

— Burma - Peeps at Many Lands • R.Talbot Kelly

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