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Verb: rope down
  1. Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
    "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"
    - rappel, abseil [Brit]

Derived forms: ropes down, roping down

Type of: come down, descend, fall, go down

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