abscission
- n shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- n the act of cutting something off
absconder
- n a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
abseil
- 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
- v lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing
abseiler
- n 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