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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To rappel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (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
  2. v. lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside

Etymologies

  1. From German abseilen, from ab- ("down") + seil ("rope"). (Wiktionary)
  2. German abseilen, to descend at the end of a rope : ab, down, off; see ablaut + Seil, rope (from Middle High German, from Old High German). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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