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Definition of descendeur in English: descendeurnoun dɪˈsɛndədiˈsendər Climbing A piece of metal around which a rope is passed, which makes use of friction to slow descent during abseiling. 〔登山〕（绕绳下降时用于减慢下降速度的）金属滑栓 Example sentencesExamples - You practice abseiling down the rope, using a special device called a STOP - different to a climbing descendeur, it gives much more control over your descent.
- Our tents are filled with clothes, down jackets, sleeping bags, woollen gloves and socks, snow boots, and tonnes of packed cream - sun-block, moisturiser, lip balm and cleanser - as well as the routine climbing paraphernalia of ropes, crampons, harnesses, descendeurs and carabiners.
- As for the climbing gear, I saw nothing in the photos that resembled a descendeur or karabiner.
- After threading the rope through a rusting Karabiner attached to a wire hawser wrapped around a rock beneath the Bolster Stone, Hugh abseiled off, after clipping me onto the rope via a ‘figure of eight’ descendeur.
- At the top of the gorge (which we would have been hard pushed to find at all on our own) we were shown the following method of clipping into a figure of eight descendeur without chancing dropping it.
Origin1950s: from French, literally ‘descender’. Definition of descendeur in US English: descendeurnoundiˈsendər Climbing A piece of metal around which a rope is passed and which makes use of friction to slow descent during rappelling. 〔登山〕（绕绳下降时用于减慢下降速度的）金属滑栓 Example sentencesExamples - At the top of the gorge (which we would have been hard pushed to find at all on our own) we were shown the following method of clipping into a figure of eight descendeur without chancing dropping it.
- As for the climbing gear, I saw nothing in the photos that resembled a descendeur or karabiner.
- You practice abseiling down the rope, using a special device called a STOP - different to a climbing descendeur, it gives much more control over your descent.
- After threading the rope through a rusting Karabiner attached to a wire hawser wrapped around a rock beneath the Bolster Stone, Hugh abseiled off, after clipping me onto the rope via a ‘figure of eight’ descendeur.
- Our tents are filled with clothes, down jackets, sleeping bags, woollen gloves and socks, snow boots, and tonnes of packed cream - sun-block, moisturiser, lip balm and cleanser - as well as the routine climbing paraphernalia of ropes, crampons, harnesses, descendeurs and carabiners.
Origin1950s: from French, literally ‘descender’. |