Crossword clues for rappel
rappel
- Rock climber's descent
- One way to descend a mountain
- Move down rocks
- Mountaineer's manoeuvre
- Lower oneself with a rope
- Go down a face, in a way
- Descend, while rock climbing
- Descend, as from a mountain
- Descend down a mountain, in a way
- Descend a rock face, in a way
- Descend a mountain
- A way to descend
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rappel \Rap"pel\ (r[a^]p"p[e^]l or r[a^]p*p[e^]l"), n. [F. Cf. Repeal.] (Mil.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1931, "mountaineering technique for descending steep faces," from French rappel, literally "recall" (Old French rapel), from rapeler "to recall, summon" (see repeal (v.)). The same word had been borrowed earlier (1848) to mean "a drum roll to summon soldiers."
1957 in the mountaineering sense; see rappel (n.). Related: Rappeled; rappelling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. descend by means of a rope, abseiling. vb. 1 (label en obsolete) to call back a hawk 2 to abseil Etymology 2
n. (label en military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.
WordNet
v. lower oneself with a double 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" [syn: abseil, rope down]
[also: rappelling, rappelled]
Usage examples of "rappel".
Aenea once told me that there used to be fixed carbon-carbon lines running the length of the slideway, and the sledders had clipped on to them much as we would a cableway or rappel line, using a special low-friction clip ring similar to the cable pulley to keep from losing speed.
Aenea once told me that there used to be fixed carbon-carbon lines running the length of the slideway, and the sledders had clipped on to them much as we would a cableway or rappel line, using a special low-friction clip ring similar to the cable pulley to keep from losing speed.
That afternoon, they passed a carilloneur rappelling down the side of the Steeple.
Nemes jogs to the fixed ropes, climbs them freehand, and cuts all of them loose -- ascent lines, rappel lines, safety lines, everything.
From behind him came the click of Stapp fastening his rappelling gear.
They secured it at the top, and each member of the group rappeled down, landing safely among the scattered conifers dotted with stately hemlocks.
Some sort of rappelling gear, only Charon was in too much a hurry to do it properly.
They successfully rappelled several more times, alternating with bouts of walking, bouldering, scrambling, rock climbing, and scree sliding.
The real Emma rushes, follows her "double" Clambers outside to rappel up the line to 106 EXT.
A few meters away dangle the blue lines for rappelling from the ridge summit.
The big, long roll of nylon banner material, the rappelling harness and climbing ropes, an extra outboard-motor gas tank, a Zodiac inflation pump, and the traveling chemistry lab we jettisoned.
The first tiny glitch occurred late the first full day of travel, when they came to the precipitous cliff face (marked on the tricorder map by an incredibly tight convergence of sixteen contour lines) down which Sisko intended them to rappel.
Though, like everyone else in the United States Army, Pape had to tolerate the day-to-day routine BS, the rush of a mass parachute drop or a day on the rappelling towers more than compensated for the occasional tour of guard duty or post police detail.
Randy's half expecting Doug Shaftoe and his comrades to rappel down from the roof and enter suddenly in glittering and screaming cloaks of broken window-glass and extract Randy while Attorney Alejandro heaves his bulk against this half-ton nara table and uses it to block the door shut.
Getting her down means they have to hammer in new pitons, set up rappelling ropes for her, lower her with one of them jumaring down the fixed rope beside her, while occasionally hunkering down to avoid hard gusts of wind.