0 past simple and past participle of clamber
1 to climb up, across, or into somewhere with difficulty, using the hands and the feet:
Certainly, his calm escape after his crime does not characterize him as guilt ridden over his actions : he ' ' clambered leisurely to the ceiling ' ' and ' ' disappeared through the sky-light ' ' (908).
He clambered about trying to decide which intellectual fence to sit on.
Of course, he clambered back on again from about 1972 to 1979.
He clambered on to the rear of the car, scrabbled open the sliding door, and ate my friend.
From that abyss of danger this country has slowly clambered up, and we see now that there were three turning points in that process.
It entered at the bottom, clambered up and appeared at an opening high above.
Spectators clambered up the sides of the bay for vantage points, while hundreds more stayed on board steamboats, yachts and in row boats below.
A steep stairway, hitched to one end of the building like an inelegant afterthought, clambered to the upper rooms.
