A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson. The act of clambering. T. Moore. To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. Shak.