单词	descendeur
释义	descendeur /dɪˈsɛndə / noun Climbing A piece of metal around which a rope is passed, which makes use of friction to slow descent during abseiling.As for the climbing gear, I saw nothing in the photos that resembled a descendeur or karabiner.... You practice abseiling down the rope, using a special device called a STOP - different to a climbing descendeur, it gives much more control over your descent. At the top of the gorge (which we would have been hard pushed to find at all on our own) we were shown the following method of clipping into a figure of eight descendeur without chancing dropping it. Origin Late 20th century: from French, literally 'descender'.
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