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climbering

climbering is the present participle and gerund of climber.

Meaning of climber

Verb

climber (third-person singular simple present climbers, present participle climbering, simple past and past participle climbered)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To ascend or mount with effort; to clamber, to climb.
    • Stick plentie of bows among runciuall pease / to climber thereon, and to branch at their ease.1878, Thomas Tusser, “Februaries Husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam]...

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Questions about climbering

What is climbering the present participle and gerund of?
Climbering is the present participle and gerund of climber.

Words near climbering in the dictionary

  1. climbed up the ladder
  2. climbedst
  3. climber
  4. climber's friend
  5. climbered
  6. climbering
  7. climbers
  8. climbest
  9. climbeth
  10. climbier
  11. climbiest

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