abseil
IPA: æbsˈiɫ
noun
- A descent in mountaineering using a rope looped at the top and a friction device.
verb
- (intransitive) To descend a steep or vertical drop using a rope with a mechanical friction device or (classic abseil) by wrapping the rope around the body; to rappel.
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Examples of "abseil" in Sentences
- Shaun easily grabbed a case on his abseil.
- During that ascent, Charlet perfected the abseil.
- The course begins with a hasty abseil down a cliff.
- Julian manages to abseil down the building from the roof.
- "Here," said Mr. Kok, quickly handing me his abseil device.
- The other girls complete a challenge to abseil down a cliff.
- Climbs are often tidal, and many are approachable only by abseil.
- One of the hounds is attacked and the team abseil down to investigate.
- Respect will arrive in coachloads, and will abseil in from the heavens.
- A relatively simple abseil can be set up to get down from the shoulder.
- I think over the english speaking world, abseiling is the more common usage.
- To get to it, one must abseil down through a plume of water, dropping into a dark hole.
- The abseil was the idea of Debs Hirst, who roped in colleagues Becky Brewster, Sue Rylands,
- The next abseil started with a gentle grass slope but then it dropped onto a monstrous mossy maw.
- The coup de grace was plopping onto our backsides and sliding down a grassy bank to our first abseil point.
- By the end of abseil number two, my arms were tired, my clothes wet and my shins bleeding — only 13 more points to go.
- Listening to the instructions from one of them, I had the impressions that this was their very first 'abseil' experience ever.
- The ropes are then threaded through a figure-eight device clamped into the harness, allowing kloofers to "abseil," or rappel, great distances at a controlled clip.
- Wayne Du Plooy Kloofing enthusiast and private guide Teuns Kok begins the first abseil down a vertiginous waterfall of Ostrich Kloof, Volstruiskloof, South Africa.
- Wayne Du Plooy Weathering Heights: Kloofing enthusiast and private guide Teuns Kok beginning the first abseil down a vertiginous waterfall of Ostrich Kloof, South Africa.