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[ verb ] climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)So choosing a good tree , he clambered up into it , found a comfortable notch , and curled_up in it to sleep , like the tousled bear he was , with his hands across his chest , as though surfeited with honey . A Dr._Charles_Taft clambered up on the stage and got the actors to hoist him up to the box . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)With great difficulty John clambered to his feet and started to run , sweat pouring down his face . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Mark 's thoughts must have been keeping silent pace beside his own , climbing the same crags in dirty white sneakers , clambering out on top of the headland and coming_upon the sudden glinting water at the same instant . |
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