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Climber   /klˈaɪmər/   Listen
Climber

noun
1.
A vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants.
2.
Someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior.  Synonym: social climber.
3.
Someone who ascends on foot.  Synonym: mounter.
4.
Someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains.
5.
An iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing.  Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon.



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"Climber" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bob. "You know you're the best climber. The hole isn't more than thirty feet from ...
— Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... third Trinity boat all the time he was at Cambridge, and was a member of the Leander club. He was always perfectly cool, and not in the smallest degree nervous. He was, moreover, an excellent walker and mountain-climber. He once walked up to London from Cambridge; I have climbed mountains with him, and he was very agile, quick, surefooted, and entirely intrepid. Let me interpolate a little anecdote of an accident at Pontresina, which might have been serious. Hugh and I, with a practised Alpine climber, Dr. Leith, ...
— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson

... fully awakened, remained awake, and my opportunities of gratifying it have been tolerably ample. I have been an explorer of caves and ravines, a loiterer along sea-shores, a climber among rocks, a labourer in quarries. My profession was a wandering one. I remember passing direct, on one occasion, from the wild western coast of Ross-shire, where the Old Red Sandstone leans at a high angle against ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... "that on the occasion of my last visit I exhausted every means of climbing the cliff, and where I failed I do not think that anyone else is likely to succeed, for I am something of a mountaineer. I had none of the appliances of a rock-climber with me, but I have taken the precaution to bring them now. With their aid I am positive I could climb that detached pinnacle to the summit; but so long as the main cliff overhangs, it is vain to attempt ascending ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... could—as well as the others," and Bess flushed at the mention of anything in the flesh-reducing line. "I have always been a pretty fair climber." ...
— The Motor Girls Through New England - or, Held by the Gypsies • Margaret Penrose


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