Abseil - a podcast by Word of the Day

Abseil is a verb that means to lower with a rope.

Our word of the day comes from the German word abseilen (ob SILE en) which means ‘to descend by a rope.’ Its English equivalent, Abseil, has retained the same meaning. The word is often used when describing coming down a mountain or a building. For example:

When scaling Mount. Columbia became too much of a challenge, we had to abseil roughly halfway down. Sometimes descending on rope is the smartest thing to do.

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