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climbingly

climbingly adverb: in a climbing manner.

Adverb

climbingly (comparative more climbingly, superlative most climbingly)

  1. In a climbing manner.
    • With ghastly faces ghastlier from the lamp, / That swung and flicker’d with its yellow flare, / And feebly stain’d their frighten’d features, damp / With chilly sweat and rigid with despair, / Or list’ning to the terrifying tramp / Of feet above the cabin where they were, / Or gazing, as they...1844, Stephen Prentis, “The Cabin”, in The wreck of The Roscommon, Dinan: J.-B. Huart, pages 23–24
    • Rig, w. to reach about climbingly.1862, William Barnes, Tiw; or, A View of the Roots and Stems of the English as a Teutonic Tongue, London: John Russell Smith, page 180

Examples of climbingly in a sentence

  • Like the beginners of all arduous under- and upper-takings, we set off at a round pace, and got on swimmingly, or rather climbingly.1864 September 7, John Flint South, Charles Lett Feltoe (collector), Memorials of John Flint South, London: John Murray, published 1884...
  • We were refreshed with a night’s good rest, and our journey up went on swimmingly—or climbingly.1872, H[enry] Perry Smith, chapter XXXVI, in The modern Babes in the Wood or Summerings in the Wilderness, Hartford, Conn.: Columbian Book...
  • Of course the metal of the car wheels and the caliber of the baby must be topnotch to allow either of them to react upon grit climbingly.1912 April 21, “Authority on Cranberries. How Lucian J. Fosdick of Dorchester Has Made His Way in Business---Once Sawed a Cord of Wood for...
  • One of the men, the slender fellow, walked climbingly out on the jib boom; and from there, leaped.1920, Gordon Young, “Hurricane Williams”, in Adventure, page 78:

Forms of climbingly

comparativemore climbingly
superlativemost climbingly

Origin of climbingly

From climbing + -ly.

Questions about climbingly

What does climbingly mean?
Climbingly means in a climbing manner.
How do you use climbingly in a sentence?
Like the beginners of all arduous under- and upper-takings, we set off at a round pace, and got on swimmingly, or rather climbingly.
What part of speech is climbingly?
Climbingly is an adverb.

Words near climbingly in the dictionary

  1. climbing up the ladder
  2. climbing wall
  3. climbing walls
  4. climbing wattle
  5. climbing-boy
  6. climbingly
  7. climbings
  8. climbout
  9. climbouts
  10. climbs
  11. climbs down

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