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Abseil
see synonyms of abseilNoun
1. abseil, rappel
(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
Verb
lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
Example Sentences:'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'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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