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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLAMBER, v.i. [from climb, or D. Klampen, to grapple.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an awkward climb; "reaching the crest was a real clamber" v
1: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (clambered; clambering) Etymology: Middle English clambren; akin to Old English climban to climb Date: 14th century to climb awkwardly (as by scrambling) <clambered over the rocks> • clamberer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. climb with hands and feet, esp. with difficulty or laboriously. --n. a difficult climb. Etymology: ME, prob. f. clamb, obs. past tense of CLIMB

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clamber Clam"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clambered; p. pr. & vb. n. Clambering.] [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. Clamp, Climb.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clamber Clam"ber, n. The act of clambering. --T. Moore.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clamber Clam"ber, v. t. To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(clambers, clambering, clambered) If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet. They clambered up the stone walls of a steeply terraced olive grove... = scramble VERB: V prep/adv

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Climb (with difficulty), scramble.