Associations to the word «Rappelling»
Noun
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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".
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