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n. (context climbing English) A device, used to clip on a rope, that tightens when weight is applied, thus allowing the rope to be climbed vb. To climb using this device
Usage examples of "jumar".
South of France, Prince Tariq Shazad ibn Zachir, paramount sheikh and ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state of Jumar, tossed aside the cellular phone and turned his attention to his most trusted aide, Latif.
The paramount sheikh of Jumar might exercise feudal power over his subjects.
The cab speeding them through the wide pristine streets of Jumar city was taking them to the prison where her brother, Adrian, was being held.
After the experience of having her luxurious home in Jumar repossessed and being deported with her twin toddlers because she no longer had any means of support, her sister-in-law, Lizzie, was feeling very sorry for herself.
She was out of her depth here in Jumar where the very air seemed to smell of high-powered money and privilege, she thought bitterly.
For a split second, memory took her back to the instant when Tariq had slid that ring onto her finger in the Embassy of Jumar in London.
And when she had finally stumbled out of the Embassy of Jumar, heartbroken and with her pride in tatters, she had thrust the envelope at Percy in revulsion and condemnation.
It would be so easy to develop delusions of grandeur in Jumar, she decided.
Her search took some time but eventually she found a map of Jumar which had the airport clearly marked.
I will have you know that assault is assault in Jumar, no matter who the victim or who the perpetrator.
Once his father died, she was convinced that she would be ditched and forgotten about because Tariq would be spending more time in Jumar than abroad.
She had not been prepared to see deep dunes on the careful route she had traced for the simple reason that there was none close to Jumar City.
It was time she faced facts: she was stuck in Jumar for the foreseeable future.
In fact she had been in almost continual shock from the day of her arrival in Jumar for absolutely nothing seemed comprehensible to her.
The harem was a foreign concept as well, imported into Jumar by my great-grandfather, a man whose appetite for your sex is a living legend.