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Definition of Rapid climb

1. Noun. A rapid rise.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapid Climb

Literary usage of Rapid climb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"... rapidly ascended, and the views into the valley of Santos, to the harbor below, and to the scenes that develop in the rapid climb are most thrilling. ..."

2. A Hunter's Camp-fires by Edward John House (1909)
"The sheep disappearing around a near-by bluff, we made a rapid climb over the bowlders to a position where we could see the ghost-like forms of the animals ..."

3. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King (1902)
"A short, rapid climb brought us to the top, four hours and thirty minutes' working time from our crater bivouac. There is no reason why anyone of sound wind ..."

4. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"(5) Student naval aviators are strictly enjoined from attempting to make rapid climb until they are so authorized—this to prevent danger of stalling. ..."

5. North America by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1883)
"A short rapid climb brought us to the top; four hours and thirty minutes from our crater bivouac. " There is no reason why any one of sound wind and limb ..."

6. North America by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1883)
"A short rapid climb brought us to the top; four hours and thirty minutes from our crater bivouac. " There is no reason why any one of sound wind and limb ..."

7. The Rockies of Canada by Walter Dwight Wilcox (1900)
"Pausing a brief moment to take breath after the rapid climb, I worked over to the cliff edge cautiously but not without disturbing some shaly stones, ..."

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