cragsman
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Being something of a cragsman, I did manage to get half way to the top of that.
From The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt
All four men were born mountaineers, good climbers, and they were led by the most expert cragsman I have seen.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
No cragsman in broadest daylight could do such a thing, he asserted.
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott
He would go out on all-day excursions, enjoying the thrills of clambering up to what appeared to be inaccessible ledges, until eventually he became an expert cragsman.
From The Life of George Borrow by Herbert George Jenkins
The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither of them doubted his own footing, and George was sure that three or four of the men who had come with Sir Robert were equally good cragsmen.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Jack-booted, buff-coated troopers; scarlet militiamen; brown, stern-faced Tauntonians; serge-clad pikemen; wild, ragged miners; smockfrocked yokels; reckless, weather-tanned seamen; gaunt cragsmen from the northern coast—all pushed and jostled each other in a thick, many-coloured crowd.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The natives are expert cragsmen, and much of their time is occupied in collecting birds' feathers.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
La Fauconnaire is, I believe, unclimbable except at one place, at least for those who are not experienced cragsmen or Alpine experts.
From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling
