CLAMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clamber mean? 

• CLAMBER (noun)
  The noun CLAMBER has 1 sense:

1. an awkward climb

  Familiarity information: CLAMBER used as a noun is very rare.

• CLAMBER (verb)
  The verb CLAMBER has 1 sense:

1. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

  Familiarity information: CLAMBER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An awkward climb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

reaching the crest was a real clamber

Hypernyms ("clamber" is a kind of...):

climb; mount (the act of climbing something)

Derivation:

clamber (climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling)

• CLAMBER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they clamber    ... he / she / it clambers   
Past simple: clambered   
Past participle: clambered   
-ing form: clambering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

clamber; scramble; shin; shinny; skin; sputter; struggle

Hypernyms (to "clamber" is one way to...):

climb (move with difficulty, by grasping)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

clamber (an awkward climb)

 Context examples 

Think ye that ye have heart enough to clamber down this cliff?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was glee in our eyes, and suppressed titters in our mouths, as we put on our shoes and clambered over the side into the boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Well, I waited until the road was clear—it is never a very frequented one at any time, I fancy—and then I clambered over the fence into the grounds.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The base of the cliff was heaped with loose stones at the spot, and it was not difficult to clamber up.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the gloom of evening therefore, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I clambered out upon the sill, but I hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The other puppies came sprawling toward him, to Collie's great disgust; and he gravely permitted them to clamber and tumble over him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Once the ark is built, Uta–napishti and his family clamber aboard and survive with a menagerie of animals.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Who on all the country side, save only Boy Jim, would have swung himself over Wolstonbury Cliff, and clambered down a hundred feet with the mother hawk flapping at his ears in the vain struggle to hold him from her nest?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In these diversions he was interrupted by a noise at the closet door, as if somebody were opening it: whereupon he suddenly leaped up to the window at which he had come in, and thence upon the leads and gutters, walking upon three legs, and holding me in the fourth, till he clambered up to a roof that was next to ours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)