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Descend rock-face by rope
Answer for the clue "Descend rock-face by rope ", 6 letters:
abseil
Alternative clues for the word abseil
- Descend by rope, as in mountaineering
- Descend a cliff by rope
- Mountaineer's descent needs muscles - after which rest up
- Descend a mountain by rope
- Descend on ropes
- Engage in rappelling (Brit.)
- A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point
Word definitions for abseil in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A descent in mountaineering using a rope looped at the top and a friction device. (First attested in the mid 20th century.) vb. (context intransitive English) To descend a steep or vertical drop using a rope with a mechanical friction device or ''(classic ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point v. lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain ...
Usage examples of abseil.
I particularly liked riding there, and it was a good place for Abseil, except that the uphill finish could find him out.
There were eight runners that day, a pleasant sized field, and Abseil was second favourite.
The long obsession had died with Maynard, and he had been dead before he hit the peat, like Cascade and Cotopaxi, Abseil and Col.
The wash-head was operating, spraying the windows and his abseil rope as it travelled down after him.
I had all the clothing, body armor, abseil kit, the lot, and the weapons that any member of the assault group would be taking, and there was Fat Boy, who was dressed up in the kit.
Zaginaws landed, till now, when he saw that man in black, who appeared to be the Eternal Emperor himself, abseil out the window.
A forensic team abseils down the cliff and scours the area but finds nothing more than a few small strips of clothing.
She slung her Uzi over her shoulder then abseiled down, landing silently on the floor below.
I They secured the end of the rope to one of the poles wedged like an anchor in the opening of the tunnel that led to the crystal cavern, and Craig abseiled down the rope to the water at the bottom of the shaft once more.
I twisted the descendeur and abseiled down for what had to be the last time, wet blisters rising and bursting on my ungloved hand.
More people have been killed while abseiling than from any other mountaineering activity.
He was less concerned with looking good than with avoiding the kind of spectacular abseiling that might put an extra load on the anchor and himself in the morgue.
She pushed herself up and returned to the parapet in time to see the abseiling rope snap and the cradle it had been restraining catapulted back across the facade of the Gridiron.
StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.
Land Rovers screaming around the desert, men in black kit abseiling down embassy walls, or free fallers with all the kit on, leaping into the night.