Climber
['klaɪmə] or ['klaɪmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; 'the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes'.
(noun.) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants.
Editor: Sheldon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, climbs
(n.) A plant that climbs.
(n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
(v. i.) To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
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Examples
- It is one of the lightest and cheapest of automobiles, runs easily at ten to twelve miles an hour, and is an efficient hill-climber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Must man, the heaven-climber, be for ever the victim of the crawling reptiles of his species! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The gradations from leaf-climbers to tendril bearers are wonderfully close, and certain plants may be differently placed in either class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Each of the climbers is carrying an alpenstock, or staff with ice ax at one end and spike at the other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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