climb
verb (used without object)
to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only.
half-climbing
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a word derived from
climb.
Example Sentences
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And at last there I stood; and then sat with my legs dangling over the precipice till I felt rested; and then, half-drawn, half-climbing, I made my way up.
From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn
A small-growing, half-climbing shrub, with leathery, deep green leaves, and inconspicuous flowers.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
This handsome evergreen, half-climbing shrub is certainly not so well known as its merits entitle it to be.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
They took the form of half-climbing shrubs, their pitchers, of various sizes and forms, hanging in numbers from their leaves.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
The grizzly features of the grenadiers soon appeared, and the dark column, half-climbing, half-running, were seen scaling the height.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
