Climb
Climb (klīm) , intransitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon climban; akin to Old High German chlimban, German & Dutch klimmen, Icelandic klīfa, and English cleave to adhere.]
1.
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. [Obsolete or Vulgar]
2.
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
3.
(Botany) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb , transitive verb
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb , noun
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. — Warburton