clambering

English

Verb

clambering

1. present participle and gerund of clamber

Noun

clambering (plural clamberings)

1. The act of one who clambers.
   • 1923, Charles Fort, New Lands:

     It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.

Adjective

clambering (comparative more clambering, superlative most clambering)

1. Climbing
   • 1821, Washington Irving, A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New-Amsterdam; Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Published, page 50:

     Its hills of smiling green swelled gently one above another, crowned with lofty trees of luxuriant growth; some pointing their tapering foliage towards the clouds, which were gloriously transparent; and others loaded with a verdant burthen of clambering vines, bowing their branches to the earth, that was covered with flowers.

   • 1829, Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes, page 92:

     The panes are ruddy through the clambering vines
     And blushing leaves, that Summer intertwines
     In warmer tints than e'er luxuriant Spring,
     O'er flower-embosom'd roof led wandering.