Associations to the word «Rappel»

Wiktionary

RAPPEL, noun. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling.
RAPPEL, verb. (obsolete) to call back a hawk
RAPPEL, verb. To abseil
RAPPEL, noun. (military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.

Dictionary definition

RAPPEL, noun. (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body.
RAPPEL, verb. Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King