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verb

Climb v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

Climb v. i. (past & past part. climbed, obs. or vulgar clomb; pres. part. climbing)

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. "Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day."

(Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

noun

Climb n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

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Etymology of 'Climb'

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"Climb" Quotes from Famous Books

... of man, is to be found, perhaps, in England. Lady Anna, who had been used to wilder scenery in her native county, was delighted. Nothing had ever been so beautiful as the Abbey;—nothing so lovely as the running Wharfe! Might they not climb up among those woods on the opposite bank? Lord Lovel declared that, of course they would climb up among the woods,—it was for that purpose they had come. That was the way to the Stryd,—over which he was determined that Lady Anna should be made ...

— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope

... individual to sacrifice his welfare for the welfare of the group. There we have the stem of the world-spirit of to-morrow. But the blossom will not burst forth in a night. It must come by an unfolding and a growth. We cannot climb to universal peace upon a golden ladder and cut the rungs beneath us. Evolution builds on the past. The final spirit of "worldism" will be a broadening and a deepening and a humanizing of the spirit of sacrifice which is the ...

— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

... his lessons Prince Inga used to go into the grove near his father's palace and climb into the branches of a tall tree, where he had built a platform with a comfortable seat to rest upon, all hidden by the canopy of leaves. There, with no one to disturb him, he would pore over the sheepskin on which were ...

— Rinkitink in Oz • L. Frank Baum

... from thirteen shillings a ton to fifty, then to seventy, and a few days later to a hundred. It couldn't climb any ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... would have to have the doctor after all. It didn't much matter now! Into that coppice the moon-light would have crept; there would be shadows, and those shadows would be the only things awake. No birds, beasts, flowers, insects; Just the shadows —moving; 'Ladies in grey!' Over that log they would climb; would whisper together. She and Bosinney! Funny thought! And the frogs and little things would whisper too! How the clock ticked, in here! It was all eerie—out there in the light of that red moon; in here with the little steady night-light ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

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