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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abseil . - noun Plural form of
abseil .
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Examples
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Several hours and nine abseils later, we arrived at the dreaded "Fridge," so nicknamed for what it does to one's body temperature.
Between a Rock and a Waterfall Peter Wonacott 2011
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The great-great grandmother, of Hayling Island, has completed 18 abseils, starting at the tender age of 85, and her stunts have raised more than £15,000 for local charities.
From David Attenborough to Delia Smith, the best of the grey power list 2011
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The six-man team, using abseils to inch down from the roof of the steepest stand at Old Trafford, had been asked to sign confidentiality agreements, as had the company that produced the huge red lettering.
Sir Alex Ferguson stand is a proud moment, says manager 2011
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The great-great grandmother, of Hayling Island, has completed 18 abseils, starting at the tender age of 85, and her stunts have raised more than £15,000 for local charities.
From David Attenborough to Delia Smith, the best of the grey power list 2011
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Lots of talk on charity abseils, football matches and T in the park but little in the way of substantive information on what the Office has been involved in in its official capacity.
What do 'most Scots' want? Jeff 2009
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Lots of talk on charity abseils, football matches and T in the park but little in the way of substantive information on what the Office has been involved in in its official capacity.
Archive 2009-09-01 Jeff 2009
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Suddenly, 30 feet up, a flap opens and Williams abseils to earth, pumped up like Gazza before that FA Cup final, roars through "Let Me Entertain You" amid face-melting pyros, turns a we're-not-worthy bow into a breakdance routine, then stands stock still doing his Mussolini face.
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St Trinian's was not unlike my own free- thinking boarding school: the letting loose of a live greasy pig on Parents' Day while fathers ogled the seniors' catwalk show of bikinis made in needlework; the unregulated hockey matches umpired by the art master and night-time abseils on fire-escape pulleys.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Rose Prince 2012
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Enlarge A student abseils down a shaft close to the Sediba site
Home | Mail Online 2010
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It was exciting, scary, and a lot tougher than the morning abseils because of the water in your face and the slippery rocks.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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