That clambers, in various senses of vbs.
c. 1340. [see CLAMBER v.1]
1685. H. More, Illustr., 93. The clambring nature of the Goat intimates also the aspiring ambition of Alexander.
a. 1718. Parnell, Gift of Poetry (1758), 146 (R.).
| No clamb’ring mountains make my lover stay, | |
| (For what are mountains, in a lover’s way?) |
a. 1763. Shenstone, Wks. (1764), I. 78. View the clamb’ring goats ascend.
1883. Grant Allen, in Knowledge, 31 Aug., 129/1. The leaflets at the end of the stalk in the most clambering species of peaflowers have been gradually metamorphosed into twining tendrils.
