climb (klim)

[ You have not forgotten... our climb to the Cleft Station. Tyndall, Forms of Water, p. 155. climbable (klima-bl), a. [ climb + -able .] Capable of being climbed or ascended. I... climbed everything climbable , and eat everything eatable. M. W. Savage , R. Medlicott, ii. 3. climber1 (kli'mer), n. [ bot . , a plant that rises by attaching itself to some support; specifically, in England, the virgin's-bower, Clematis Vitalba . Climbing plants are distinguished as stem - climbers , which, like the hop, wind upward around an upright support, and as tendril - climbers , which, like the grape-vine, cling to adjacent objects by slender coiling tendrils. Other plants climb also by means of retrorse bristles or spines, or by means of rootlets. Twiners are distinguished from proper climbers by the absence of any special organs.. for grasping supports; climbers being provided with some sort of tendrils or other help. G. L. Goodale, Physiological Botany, p. 405. 3. pl. In ornith., the birds of the old order Scan sores, as the parrots, cockatoos, woodpeckers, etc.: so called from their climbing habits. They have two toes before and two behind.4. A locomotive with driving-wheels fitted to a cog-rail, for ascending steep grades.-5. pl. Same as climbing - irons.