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Rope down   /roʊp daʊn/   Listen
Rope down

verb
1.
Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside.  Synonyms: abseil, rappel.  "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"






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"Rope down" Quotes from Famous Books



... his end of it fast to the two ends of the black bundles, and backing out as far as he could, he let them both down gently into the water, and pulled away, leaving the Children of the King alone on the ledge. He had managed to bring the rope down through the cleft, so that it could not easily be seen from the sea. The boys waited some time before either of them spoke, although the old ...
— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford

... on with my story, and keep right by that horse's head I spoke of, I will pass over Josiah's excitement when he come in jest before dinner, and throwed his rope down in the corner of the kitchen; but suffice it to say, ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley

... not. For Mr. Desires-awake was full of louder voices within. The voices within his bosom quite drowned the babel around him. The voices within called him far worse names than the streets of the city ever called him; till all he could do was to draw his rope down upon his head and press on again to the Prince's pavilion. You understand about that rope, my brethren, do you not? Mr. Desires-awake's continual rope? In old days when a guilty man came of his own accord ...
— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte

... boom, threading the reefing-rope through the eye of the sail. He shouted "Water!" and the water came on board, carrying the three men aft. Upton was washed over the taffrail. Weeks threw one end of the rope down, and Rail and Willie caught it and were swept overboard, dragging Weeks from the boom on to the deck and jamming him against ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason

... find a piece of rope and make it fast to something up there, and then drop your rope down here ...
— The Knights of the White Shield - Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play • Edward A. Rand



Words linked to "Rope down" :   descend, mountaineer, come down, sport, fall, go down, abseil, rappel, athletics



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