rappel

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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
verb lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside

Borrowed from French rappeler (“to pull through (a rope)”).

Ten times a day, or in the dead of night, the drum would beat le rappel or la generale. — The Martian: A Novel, George Du Maurier
On his side the prince sounded a rappel and all the officers of the royalist army, mingling momentarily with the Parisian troops, ran to him. — Twenty years after, Alexandre Dumas

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