artificial aid
Mountaineering and Rock Climbing
noun
A device such as a crampon, piton, etc., used to assist a climber (ropes and other safety equipment typically not being classed in this way).
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.
- in that
- in that case
- in that event
- in the abstract
- in the act of
- in the affirmative
- in (the) aggregate
- in the air
- in the altogether
- in the ascendant
- in the bag
- in the balance
- in the belief that
- in the blink of an eye (or in a blink)
- in the box seat
- in the buff
- in the business of
- in the cactus
- in the can
- in the cart
- in the catbird seat
- in the cause of
- in the clear
- in the clouds
- in the club (or the pudding club)