climbing iron

Questions about climbing iron

What is another word for climbing iron?

It depends which climbing iron you mean. In the sense “an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing”, the synonyms are crampon, crampoon, climber. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of climbing iron?

WordNet records no antonym for climbing iron. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for climbing iron come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of climbing iron

• Full entry for climbing ironAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for climbing ironWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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