climbingly

comparative more climbingly · superlative most climbingly

1. In a climbing manner.

   Rig, w. to reach about climbingly.

   1862, William Barnes, Tiw; or, A View of the Roots and Stems of the English as a Teutonic Tongue, London: John Russell Smith, page 180

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   With ghastly faces ghastlier from the lamp, / That swung and flicker’d with its yellow flare, / And feebly stain’d their frighten’d features, damp / With chilly sweat and rigid with despair, / Or list’ning to the terrifying tramp / Of feet above the cabin where they were, / Or gazing, as they shrunk and huddled more / And more together on the shelving floor, / Upon the fierce irruption of the seas, / Which now had grown a formidable tide, / That climbingly increas’d by swift degrees, / The passengers were kneeling side by side, / Gentle and simple; but alarm did freeze / Their accents, and the pray’r unutter’d died / Within their lips, ’till fell the mast, and then / « Oh! God! » they cried, and straight were still again.

   1844, Stephen Prentis, “The Cabin”, in The wreck of The Roscommon, Dinan: J.-B. Huart, pages 23–24

   Like the beginners of all arduous under- and upper-takings, we set off at a round pace, and got on swimmingly, or rather climbingly.

   1864 September 7, John Flint South, Charles Lett Feltoe (collector), Memorials of John Flint South, London: John Murray, published 1884, page 181

   We were refreshed with a night’s good rest, and our journey up went on swimmingly—or climbingly.

   1872, H[enry] Perry Smith, chapter XXXVI, in The modern Babes in the Wood or Summerings in the Wilderness, Hartford, Conn.: Columbian Book Company; Syracuse, N.Y.: Watson Gill, page 229

   Youth no more, / Only age, / Yet mark the score / How it crowds the page, / How the leaves are thin, / Finger-worn, / Spotted and torn / Where you begin / To think the song / Is fading too, / As all along / The avenue / Of notes the blight / Is through and through / To tax the sight / And lip of you, / Till one full day / You shall hear / Your same notes play / New and clear, / Climbingly strong / As they were then, / For here is your song, / In the wind again!

   1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, “Adelyn, or, How to Win Her”, in Bell and Wing, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, page 553

   Of course the metal of the car wheels and the caliber of the baby must be topnotch to allow either of them to react upon grit climbingly.

   1912 April 21, “Authority on Cranberries. How Lucian J. Fosdick of Dorchester Has Made His Way in Business---Once Sawed a Cord of Wood for a Dollar---His Avocation of Cranberry Growing---How to Cook Them. His Summer Home in Carver, a Plymouth County Town.”, in The Boston Sunday Globe, volume LXXXI, number 112, Boston, Mass., page 5