MOUNTAINEER

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.

2.
n.

A rude, fierce person. [Obs.] No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

3.
v.

To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains. You can't go mountaineering in a flat country. H. James.