单词 | etrier |
释义 | etriern. Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. Originally: a short rope ladder with two or three wooden or metal rungs. Now usually: a climbing aid of webbed nylon consisting of a short series of stirrup-shaped loops set on alternate sides of a central line. Also in plural (with singular agreement) in same sense (rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of runner1688 runner ring1791 ice axec1800 alpenstock1829 rope1838 climbing-iron1857 piolet1868 snap-link1875 prickera1890 middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892 chock1894 glacier-rope1897 piton1898 run-out1901 belaying-pin1903 snap-ring1903 ironmongery1904 line1907 Tricouni1914 ice claw1920 peg1920 sling1920 ice piton1926 ice hammer1932 karabiner1932 rock piton1934 thread belay1935 mugger1941 running belay1941 piton hammer1943 sky-hook1951 etrier1955 pied d'éléphant1956 rope sling1957 piton runner1959 bong1960 krab1963 rurp1963 ice screw1965 nut1965 traverse line1965 jumar1966 knife-blade1968 tie-off1968 rock peg1971 whammer1971 Whillans whammer1971 Whillans harness1974 1955 J. E. B. Wright Technique of Mountaineering iv. 64 Etriers are rope steps usually of one or two rungs. 1955 J. E. B. Wright Technique of Mountaineering v. 82 Etrier steps. Etrier-stirrups are generally used in pairs and each consists of one to four light alloy rungs placed a foot or so apart and fastened to two short pieces of rope. 1970 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 42/1 He had left his etriers (a little three-rung rope ladder) hooked on to a piton a few feet below. 1996 J. Lowe Ice World 181/2 Clip étriers into small loops of cord that are tied through the holes in the spikes of your tools. 2012 R. Barnett China Ultimatum xxxii. 166 He would step up into the first black stirrup of the five comprising the etrier and spring up from that foothold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1955 |
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