Noah Webster
Climb
CLIMB, verb intransitive
1. To creep up by little and little, or step by step; to mount or ascend, by means of the hands and feet; to rise on any fixed object, by seizing it with the hands and lifting the body, and by thrusting with the feet; as, to climb a tree or a precipice.
And he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore tree. Luke 19:4.
2. To mount or ascend with labor and difficulty.
3. To rise or ascend with a slow motion.
Black vapors climb aloft.
CLIMB, verb transitive
1. To ascend by means of the hands and feet, implying labor, difficulty and slow progress; as, to climb a wall, or a steep mountain.
2. To mount or ascend, with labor or a slow motion; as, to climb the ascents of fame.