单词 | rock climber |
释义 | rock climbern. A person who or (occasionally) an animal which climbs rocks; esp. a person who does so as a sport or pastime. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > mountaineer or climber rock climber1767 rockman1798 cragsman1816 cliffsman1829 mountaineer1860 Alpestrian1861 alpinist1861 cliffer1861 glissader1861 ascensionist1863 alpenstocker1864 shin-scraper1869 hillmana1885 second1907 Munro-bagger1910 summiteer1926 middleman1968 rock jock1980 free soloist1984 1767 J. Bate Critica Hebræa 252/1 Goats, i.e. rock-climbers. 1835 Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 165 The rock-climbers assure you that the guillemot, when undisturbed, never lays more than one egg. 1853 F. Galton Narr. Explorer Trop. S. Afr. ii. 48 The lions..proved to be far better rock-climbers than ourselves. 1864 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 5 June 8/1 I tried my best, and am not a bad rock climber, but nothing under a seagull could have got up. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 2/1 Accustomed to the rock-climbers of the Tyrol, we found our guides slow. 1940 F. Smythe Adventures of Mountaineer vii. 75 I knew my companion to be a magnificent rock climber, as agile and as active as a cat. 1977 R.A.F. News 27 Apr. 20/6 St Athan's mountain rescue team..were asked to help rescue a rock climber who had fallen in the Brecon Beacons. 1998 S. O'Connell Angel Bird 14 He was an enthusiastic rock climber. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1767 |
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