Today's Word "clamber"
To climb with difficulty
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clamber \KLAM-buhr; KLAM-uhr\ (intransitive verb) - To climb with difficulty, or on all fours; to scramble.
(noun) - The act of clambering.
"See them clamber, these quick monkeys! They clamber away, one atop the other, and so drag themselves into the mud and the abyss." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 'Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None'
Clamber is from Middle English clambren, probably a modification of climben, "to climb."
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