| Pronunciation: | | 'klImur
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- [n] an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
- [n] someone who climbs as a sport
- [n] someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase"
- [n] someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
- [n] a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
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| | Synonyms: | | climbing iron, crampon, crampoon, mounter, social climber |
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| | See Also: | | ascender, athlete, cragsman, escalader, jock, lion-hunter, mountain climber, mountaineer, nouveau-riche, parvenu, rock climber, root climber, spike, upstart, vine |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Climb"er\, n.
One who, or that which, climbs:
(a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a
parrot.
\Climb"er\, v. i. [From {Climb}; cf. {Clamber}.]
To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] --Tusser.
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| | Related Terms: | | adventurer, algae, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, camper, comers and goers, commuter, conferva, confervoid, cosmopolite, cragsman, creeper, cruiser, diatom, excursionist, explorer, fare, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, hajji, herb, heterophyte, ivy, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mariner, mold, moss, mountaineer, mushroom, palmer, parasite, parasitic plant, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, pilgrim, pioneer, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rust, sailor, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sightseer, smut, straphanger, succulent, toadstool, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, vetch, viator, vine, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler, wort, wrack |
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