clamber

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  1. intransitive verb To climb with difficulty, especially on all fours; scramble.
  2. noun A difficult, awkward climb.

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  • With her visor up, she saw row barges grapple the boom, letting Knights of the Sword clamber onto the logs, covered by the archers. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • Bodyspacemotionthings allows audience to crawl, clamber, balance and slide —  The Guardian World News
  • Your character will then clamber, slide and run to the next cover automatically, avoiding most gunfire. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Beneath a famous international hotel, I clamber down into possibly the only gay club on the Saudi Arabian peninsular. —  Latest Articles
  • Before the pirates used grappling irons to clamber aboard, the 20-man crew reportedly disabled the ship, as they were trained to do, to prevent the raiders sailing it into Somali territorial waters, where it is more difficult for foreign navies to operate. —  Top Stories - Google News
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clamber:   clambered ·  clambering
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  1. Middle English clambren, probably frequentative of climben, to climb; see climb.

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  1. Formerly also clammer (English dial. clammas), from Middle English clambren, clameren, climb, also heap closely together (not in Anglo-Saxon; perhaps Scandinavian), = Middle Low German klempern, Low German klempern, klemmern, climb, = Icelandic klambra, klembra = Norwegian klembra, pinch closely together, clamp, = Swedish dial. klammra = Danish klamre, grasp firmly, = German klammern, dial. klampfern, klampern, Middle High German klemberen, klampferen, clamp; in part from the noun represented by Icelandic klömbr (genitive klambrar) = Danish klammer = German klammer, dial, klampfer, klamper, an extended form of the noun seen in English clamp, clam, with freq. climb. The related words are somewhat confused.
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