Read full poem →She foundered on a rock, while we clambered up the shrouds,
And staggered like a mountain drunk, wedged in the waves almost.
Dictionary Entry
To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
In a Sentence
“The children clambered over the jungle gym.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
over clambereddown clamberedaboard clamberedback clamberedonto clamberedclambered men
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Poetry examples for “clambered”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Speed is not in her mind inseparable from carpets. Locomotion arose
in the shape of an elephant, she clambered up and chose
to travel laboriously. So far as magic carpets are concerned, she
Read full poem →I never shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,
An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road went bobbin'
To school where we was kep' at work in every kind o' weather,
Read full poem →Such my cry as, rapid, I ran over Parnes' ridge;
Gully and gap I clambered and cleared till, sudden, a bar
Jutted, a stoppage of stone against me, blocking the way.
Read full poem →“Nay!’ said Alcestis, ‘nay !’
And still we clambered on, through the dread
Read full poem →He came to a fence and clambered over it. On the far side,
the ground was littered with clothes and guns. A newspaper,
Read full poem →The children of nature
We clambered her knees.
Our breath and our moods