Associations to the word «Rappel»
Noun
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Wiktionary
RAPPEL, noun. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling.
RAPPEL, verb. (obsolete) to call back a hawk
RAPPEL, verb. To abseil
RAPPEL, noun. (military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.
Dictionary definition
RAPPEL, noun. (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body.
RAPPEL, verb. Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing".
Wise words
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.