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Climber
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- 1 Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
"Police said evidence, including footprints, was found where they believe the climbers had begun to traverse the slopes beneath Zurbriggen Ridge."
- 2 an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing wordnet
- 3 Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).; A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.
- 4 someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains wordnet
- 5 Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).; A cyclist who specializes in riding especially well on steep hills or roads.
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- 6 someone who ascends on foot wordnet
- 7 Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).; A person who is constantly trying to get ahead socially. derogatory, figuratively
"His mother was a climber, determined that her children should attend the right schools and generally succeed in what was still very much a WASP world."
- 8 someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior wordnet
- 9 Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).; A bird that climbs, such as a parrot or woodpecker; specifically (archaic), a bird having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward, formerly regarded as being from the order Scansores or Zygodactyli (now obsolete as the birds formerly in this order have been reclassified into different orders); a zygodactyl.
- 10 a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants wordnet
- 11 Something that is used for climbing.; Any structure on a playground designed to be climbed on. Canada
"If his greatest hits are museum climbers that complement the subject matter in surrounding exhibits, then "the mall jobs," he says, which are more about color and composition, "are little ditties.""
- 12 Something that is used for climbing.; Synonym of climbing iron (“a kind of crampon attached to the shoe to aid with climbing”).
- 1 To ascend or mount with effort; to clamber, to climb. intransitive, obsolete
"Stick plentie of bows among runciuall pease / to climber thereon, and to branch at their ease."
Etymology
From Middle English climber, clymber, clymbare (“one who climbs, climber”), from climben (“to climb; to ascend, fly upward, rise; to slope upwards; to approach God in prayer; to advance; to overcome, triumph; to aspire; to be presumptuous”) + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). The English word is analysable as climb (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
From climb + -er (frequentative suffix); or a blend of climb + clamber.
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