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Definition of Jumar
1. Noun. (climbing) A device, used to clip on a rope, that tightens when weight is applied, thus allowing the rope to be climbed ¹
2. Verb. To climb using this device ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jumar
1. to climb using ropes and clips [v JUMARRED, JUMARRING, JUMARS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumar
Literary usage of Jumar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Thomas Bendyshe, Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx, Pierre Flourens, John Hunter, Rudolph Wagner (1865)
"The jumar had altogether much more of the mare than of the bull, ... It is very
clear from these efforts that the pretended jumar is nothing more than a ..."
2. A Memorial of Egypt, the Red Sea, the Wildernesses of Sin & Paran, Mount by George Fisk (1850)
"We gave out a few rations of tobacco and coffee, as a last present; when, one by
one, they made their adieus; and—last of all, jumar kissed me solemnly on ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"It belonged in 1862, and for a long time after, to the kingdom of Ethiopia; and
when Sir Samuel Baker presented his firman to the sheik jumar, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1802)
"... the jumar, an animal supposed to be produced between th& 'bull and mare;—after
which» the author concludes the first section by shewing that an union ..."
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