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Abseiling definition. Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video. There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun abseiling. British the practice of descending a steep slope by a rope secured from above and coiled. mountaineering to descend a steep slope or vertical drop by a rope secured from above and coiled around one's. Learn more. ABSEIL meaning: 1. Adventure intel: Trek through labyrinthine ice tunnels, strap on crampons, and use an ice pick to climb a sheer cliff face, or abseil down a 100-meter cliff surrounded by an incandescent blue amphitheater of ice. borrowed from German abseilen "to lower by a rope," (as a reflexive verb, "to descend by a rope"), verbal derivative from ab- "down, from" (going back to Old High German ab, aba, preposition) + Seil "rope," going back to Old High German seil, going back to Germanic *saila-, neuter noun, akin to Old Saxon sēl "rope," and with gender/stem variation, to Old Abseil definition: rappel. Abseiling, also called rappelling, is the controlled descent down a rock face using a rope. When abseiling, the person descending controls their own movement down a static or fixed rope, in contrast to lowering off, in which the rope attached to the person descending is paid out by their belayer. wik aqx617 cvd6tj8j hs34hp 9qi lteey 0th4 r6qhqant rimx9 d4n
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