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Definition of Rappel
1. 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"
Category relationships: Athletics, Sport
Entails: Mountaineer
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Descend, Fall, Go Down
2. 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.
Category relationships: Mountain Climbing, Mountaineering
Generic synonyms: Descent
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
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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