| 单词 | to rope down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rope down a. intransitive. To proceed with the assistance of a rope. Now chiefly in to rope down: to descend by means of a double rope fixed above; to make an abseil. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > mountaineer or climb [verb (intransitive)] > climbing techniques glissade1837 sidle1867 traverse1897 abseil1908 to back up1909 bridge1909 to rope down1935 jam1950 rappel1950 prusik1959 solo1964 free-climb1968 hand jam1968 jumar1969 layback1972 pendule1973 top-rope1974 crimp1989 free solo1992 1878 R. L. Stevenson in Cornhill Mag. June 435 An Alpine climber roping over a peril. 1879 E. D. Mathews Up Amazon & Madeira Rivers vii. 41 We..soon came to some very hard work, roping over the second current of Macacos, which we passed quite through by about 10 a.m. 1927 Geogr. Rev. 17 8 By..poling and roping through the higher rapids. 1935 D. Pilley Climbing Days vi. 122 This roping down..is a trick one gets used to. 1943 E. Shipton Upon that Mountain iv. 78 We reached a gap about 30 feet deep, and roped down into it. 1945 G. W. Young Mountain Craft (ed. 4) iv. 152 Climbers, shy still of claiming it as a national practice, still struggle alternatively with ‘rappel’ and ‘Abseilung’, so as to put a wrapper..of dark foreign distinction about new methods of roping down. 1955 P. Bauer Kanchenjunga Challenge i. i. 22 We roped down with flashes of lightning as our only illumination. 1990 Times 9 Oct. 1/2 Royal Marine commandos..seized an Iraqi sanction-busting tanker..after ‘roping down’ from a Lynx helicopter to the ship's deck. 2006 C. Willis Boys of Everest ii. x. 194 Patey..had been killed in a rappelling accident, roping down from another of his beloved sea stacks. < as lemmas |
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