rope down

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rope down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  rope down
      v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a
           mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the
           mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You
           have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical
           climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]