单词 | roping down |
释义 | > as lemmasroping down P2. roping down: the action of descending by means of a double rope fixed above; abseiling. [After to rope down at rope v.2 7a.] ΚΠ 1935 D. Pilley Climbing Days vi. 122 This roping down..is a trick one gets used to. 1938 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 28 Aug. (Mag.) 1/4 (caption) This feminine climber is descending from one of the Teton peaks by means of a rope. Climbers call this kind of descent ‘roping down’, or ‘rappelling’. 1943 E. Shipton Upon that Mountain iv. 84 We could only proceed by a series of rappels. This is a method of ‘roping down’. 1965 A. Blackshaw Mountaineering viii. 240 Roping down... This involves:..pulling the rope round the anchor and down (the ‘rappel’ from which the manœuvre takes its name). < as lemmas |
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