Vocabulary Word
Word: clamber
Definition: climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble
Definition: climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble
Sentences Containing 'clamber'
But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.
'I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards.
Now, it is no very easy matter for anybody--except those who are almost hourly used to it, like whalemen--to clamber up a ship's side from a boat on the open sea; for the great swells now lift the boat high up towards the bulwarks, and then instantaneously drop it half way down to the kelson.
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