Definition of Rappel

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Abseil
Category relationships: Mountain Climbing, Mountaineering
Generic synonyms: Descent

2. Verb. Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside. "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
Exact synonyms: Abseil, Rope Down
Category relationships: Athletics, Sport
Entails: Mountaineer
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Descend, Fall, Go Down

Definition of Rappel

1. n. The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

Definition of Rappel

1. Noun. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling. ¹

2. Verb. (obsolete) to call back a hawk ¹

3. Verb. to abseil ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rappel

1. to descend from a steep height by means of a rope [v RAPPELLED or RAPPELED, RAPPELLING or RAPPELING, RAPPELS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rappel

raplike
raploch
raplochs
rapmeister
rapmeisters
rapophile
rapophiles
rappa
rappage
rapparee
rapparees
rappas
rapped
rappee
rappees
rappel (current term)
rappeled
rappeler
rappelers
rappeling
rappelled
rappeller
rappellers
rappelling
rappels
rappen
rapper
rappers
rapping
rappings

Literary usage of Rappel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"contract, rappel selected and purchased the cattle in controversy, receiving from the vendors orders of which the following is a specimen : 4151 "Kansas ..."

2. The Grand Canyon: And Other Poems by Henry Van Dyke (1914)
"... rappel D'AMOUR /""*OME home, my love, come home! ^ The twilight is falling, The whippoorwill calling, The night is very near, And the darkness full of ..."

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