The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clambered; p. pr. & vb. n. Clambering.] [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. Clamp, Climb.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who clambers. vb. (present participle of clamber English)
Usage examples of "clambering".
Surely mortal men must break under such punishment, yet they came on, clambering over the torn and twitching corpses of their comrades, their multi-coloured jib has plastered with reeking black mud, never wavering, each man trying to fight his way to the front rank of the attack, scornful of death, eager to seek it out in the smoking muzzles of the guns.
They turned back to the firing embrasures and poured their volleys down into the mass of Dervish clambering up towards them.
Sarasper said gloomily, clambering past the stoutly wedged boat onto a bare finger of dock beyond.
Rani struggled for breath in the suddenly close cathedral, clambering to her feet.
Where they came out of the trees, Autun rose before them, its main ramparts clambering along a defensible hill and more recent settlements sprawled below the old walls along the river, each ringed by a palisade.
I have been sliding off and clambering on ever since I bade goodbye to Havant.
I had no time to spare in clambering up it, for I had to tear my heel out of the mouth of the foremost of them, and might have been dragged down by it had he not found my spur too tough a morsel for his chewing.
My very heart rose when I saw the bull-dog fellows clambering up the breach with their pikes at the trail, and never quavering in their psalm-tune, though the bullets sung around them as thick as bees in the hiving time.
Through the grille of the hatch he could see a mast, and sailors clambering like squirrels about the rigging.
It was if he climbed those handholds he had envisioned, clambering from the pit toward the hope of light, driven by hope and fear together to ignore the pain and grip where no grip was possible, only the frail strength of himself and his own hope, which was no less fear.
Shapers sent avalanches down to bury the columns, or warriors tumbled boulders on them, still when the dust had cleared the horde pressed on, clambering over stone and corpses alike.
The fallen slowed them, but they counterattacked with grim ferocity, beasts clambering over the dead and dying to reach the ambushers, tearing at their own in their bloodlust when the wounded hampered them.
Poor Dooly thought he was abandoned there in the river and lost no time in clambering up the side of the raft back onto the deck.
He seemed to be intent upon clambering up into the branches of a tree and was being fairly secretive about it.
Escargot, shoving odds and ends through an open hatch, turned to see who was making such a fuss, paused, caught sight of the rest of the party clambering down the path.