Crossword clues for carabiner
Wiktionary
n. A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A carabiner or karabiner is a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems. The word is a shortened form of Karabinerhaken, a German phrase for a "spring hook" used by a carbine rifleman, or carabinier, to attach items to a belt or bandolier.
The carabiner has been improved several times over the decades, making it more lightweight, reliable and durable.
Usage examples of "carabiner".
Laurence grimly reloaded his pistols, thrusting them into his belt, then lengthened his carabiner straps and stood.
As the balloon surged forward again, Tolland rammed his thumb into the carabiner latch and twisted the hook, trying to release the clasp.
At the mouth of the cave there was a doubled loop of rope with a carabiner attached.
Just two more turns, pulling the carabiner through here and through there .
He then surprised Jim by retrieving and inspecting his tether cord, sliding his hand up to the end, and clipping the carabiner back on the guide wire again.
A closer look revealed that it was a key chain, a metallic red carabiner with a couple of keys and a charm, a shamrock that looked like real gold with a tiny diamond in the center.
The bright red metal of the carabiner caught my eye instantly, and the twinkle of the charm stood out among the white porcelain mugs.
I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.
To show him that it was all right, I reach up to my harness line to show him that the carabiner is locked tight to the safety line.
My right hand is useless -- some tendon slashed in these final seconds -- so I raise my left hand, pull the safety line from my harness -- I can only hope it is still intact -- and clip the carabiner onto the piton bolt with a metallic slap, like handcuffs slamming home.
With her foot on the ledge the only thing holding us against the cliff, she releases her left hand, sweeps it up, and clamps her safety line on to my dangling carabiner still attached to the piton.
The double locking snap hook at the end of the galvanized steel cable he connected to a carabiner, which hooked on the full body harness sewn into the tactical vest.
He took up his coil of Edelrid rope and a fat carabiner on which were threaded a ring of smaller carabiners.
As he inched down, he came upon the first of the pitons he had driven in before, snapped a carabiner into the first and tied off a doubled line, threading and snapping in another at each piton, to shorten his fall, should he come off the face.
Then, taking a nylon-webbed Swiss seat from his pack, he stepped gingerly into it, locked on a carabiner with a motorized brake bar, and stepped into the well, sliding quickly to the bottom.