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Clambers vs Cambers - What's the difference?

clambers | cambers |

As verbs the difference between clambers and cambers

is that clambers is (clamber) while cambers is (camber).

clambers

English

Verb

(head)
  • (clamber)

    • Anagrams

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    clamber

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
    • The children clambered over the jungle gym with reckless abandon.
  • * Tennyson
    • The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 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.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • 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.
  • * 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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.

    • cambers

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (camber)

    • camber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cambre (chiefly obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, a beam, roof deck, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
  • The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
  • (architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
  • (automotive) A vertical alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle with positive camber signifying that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than at the top.
  • The curvature of an airfoil.
  • (nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.

    • Verb

  • To curve upwards in the middle.
  • To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
    • Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.