To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.
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