1. a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point; [syn: abseiler, rappeller]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
abseiler
n 1: a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using
a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached
to some high point [syn: abseiler, rappeller]