Anyone need a new word?

[muckefuck]

The other night, I had a someone unsettling dream about a violent rivalry between neighbours. At one point, one was standing on a height and the other was climbing a steep wall to get at him. He had both hands over the top and was trying to hoist himself up. His opponent called this an attempt at "gleasing" (rhymes with "sleazing", not "leasing").

Upon waking, I resolved to look this up in the OED to see if it existed, but I didn't get around to it until today. glease is a variant spelling of the obsolete/dialectal verb glace meaning "To glance, glide; to move lightly or quickly". That's half the question answered; the other half is, is there already a verb in place which denotes the action described above? I'm especially looking at you spelunkers and rock climbers, who have verbs for all sorts of movements the rest of us don't perform often enough to name (like "chimneying").

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[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I may have asked the question badly. What I'm trying to find out is if they use any other word with a meaning similar to that which I gave the made-up word "gleasing" in my dream? That is, is there a name for "the action of getting two handholds on a surface above your head and swinging yourself up there without assistance"?

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Ah, whoops. I probably read the question badly. Nothing leaps to mind, but I'll ask my brother, who's more likely to know, anyway.