Crossword clues for crampon
crampon
- A hinged pair of curved iron bars
- An iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
- Used to raise heavy objects
- Continue to bivouac, having secured right climbing aid?
- Climber's aid
- Climber’s aid is a disadvantage round slope
- Spiked attachment for a climbing boot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crampon \Cram"pon\ (kr[a^]m"p[o^]n), n. [F. See Crampoons.]
(Bot.) An a[eum]rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
a device with pointed metal projections worn over the shoes to provide traction when walking over ice, or in mountaineering; -- usually used in the plural.
same as crampoon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes. Used for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice. 2 (context botany English) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy. 3 (context heraldry English) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook
WordNet
n. a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects [syn: crampoon]
an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing [syn: crampoon, climbing iron, climber]
Usage examples of "crampon".
He dug in the blade and bottom spike of the ax and barely grazed the forepoints of his crampons against the ice, applying just enough pressure to keep him from sliding on past the ice ax, but not enough to stop him short and spin him around upside down.
I did the same, digging crampons in as hard as I could, fully expecting the crevasse to pull the bug in and then me.
Almost forty feet down, hanging headfirst under an icy overhang so that only his crampons and butt caught the light, he looked as if he might be in trouble.
If one of us slipped or caught his crampons on a rock rather than ice, it was up to that person to stop his slide by self-arrest with his ice axe.
The best idea is not to think about that, just keep points attached to the snowslope at all times and make damned sure that no matter how tired you were, that you paid attention to where you kicked your crampons into the ice.
But we were moving so slowly that tugging our boots on seemed to take hours, adjusting our crampons took forever.
When I started to step up the slope diagonally I sat down in the snow and clipped crampons to my boots.
Sanner kicked up a second shower of ice shavings as he dug his crampons into the ice.
Two sets of crampons, a lightweight aluminum shovel, and a set of ice axes were strapped to the outside of the pack.
The aluminum snowshoes were light and had steely-toothed crampons on the bottom that gripped snow crust well.
He slung the backpack to the ground and unhitched the two sets of crampons, steel skeletons that would attach to the bottoms of our boots.
Like the snowshoes, long razor-sharp steel teeth stuck out from the bottoms of the crampons, but these teeth were longer and sharper, made for ice.
The crampons had an extra pair of teeth the snowshoes did not have and they jutted straight out from the toe at ninety-degree angles.
When you feel me tug three times, turn your face to the wall here, dig the toes of your crampons in, and walk up.
Spread-eagle against the ice, slinging axes, right and left, one after another, digging steel-toothed crampons toe-first into the wall, Jack crawled vertically up.