rappel

Borrowed from French rappeler (“to pull through (a rope)”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

rappel (plural rappels)

1. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling.

rappel (third-person singular simple present rappels, present participle rappelling or rappeling, simple past and past participle rappelled or rappeled)

1. To abseil.
2. (obsolete) To call back a hawk.

• rappel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French rappel. Compare repeal.

rappel (plural rappels)

1. (military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.

• lapper

Borrowed from Spanish rappel, from French rappeler.

• IPA^(key): /rapel/, [ra.pe̞l]

rappel inan

1. (climbing) rappel

• "rappel" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pɛl/

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rappel m (plural rappels)

1. reminder
2. encore (at the end of a performance); curtain call
3. (on a speed limit sign) continuance of an existing speed limit
4. abseil

• piqûre de rappel
• pour rappel

• → Catalan: ràpel
• → Romanian: rapel

• “rappel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• palper

Unadapted borrowing from French rappel.

rappel m (plural rappéis)

1. Alternative spelling of rapel

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. rappel