English Explanatory Dictionary

self-arrest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various mountaineering maneuvers in which a climber who has fallen and is sliding down a slope halts the slide without recourse to a rope or other belay system.

Word forms

self-arrest self-arrests

Etymology

From self- + arrest.

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