Adjacent Words

Climbed definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLIMBED, pp.
1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.
2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Climb Climb (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (kl[o^]m); p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. kl[=i]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. --Dryden. 3. (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.