Clamber vs Slog - What's the difference?
clamber | slog |
To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
* Tennyson
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 22. p. 220.
*:And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.
(chiefly, British, and, Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
(cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
As verbs the difference between clamber and slog
is that clamber is to climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion while slog is to walk slowly, encountering resistance.As nouns the difference between clamber and slog
is that clamber is the act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb while slog is a long, tedious walk, or session of work.clamber
English
Verb
(en verb)- The children clambered over the jungle gym with reckless abandon.
- The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
- Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through and through, and little better than a rotten shell. So it was that I had some ado to get over it, not daring either to kneel upon it or to bring much weight to bear with my hand, lest it should go through.
- He would clamber about the roof and windows for hours attempting to discover means of ingress, but to the door he paid little attention, for this was apparently as solid as the walls.
slog
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slogg)- A miraculous desert rain. We slog , dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
