clambering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of clamber

plural clamberings

1. The act of one who clambers.

   It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.

   1923, Charles Fort, New Lands

comparative more clambering · superlative most clambering

1. Climbing

   The panes are ruddy through the clambering vines And blushing leaves, that Summer intertwines In warmer tints than e'er luxuriant Spring, O'er flower-embosom'd roof led wandering.

   1829, Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes, page 92

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   Its hills of smiling green swelled gently one above another, crowned with lofty trees of luxuriant growth; some pointing their tapering foliage towards the clouds, which were gloriously transparent; and others loaded with a verdant burthen of clambering vines, bowing their branches to the earth, that was covered with flowers.

   1821, Washington Irving, A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New-Amsterdam; Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Published, page 50