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# clamber

«clamber» in Mova's school dictionary: **To climb up or over something using hands and feet, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (clambers, clambered, clambering)

### meaning for a pupil

To climb up or over something using hands and feet, often with effort or clumsily: clamber up a wall, over rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamber/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character climbs up a pillar, a pedestal or steep place, or up to a window

### examples

- The cat clambered up the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamber/#x1)
- We clambered over the rocks to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamber/#x2)
- She clambered slowly off the stool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamber/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clamber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clamber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.