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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.

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  • A female abseiler rescued from beneath the rock ledge of a Blue Mountains waterfall has refused hospital treatment.
  • A female abseiler is stuck beneath a rock ledge of a Blue Mountains waterfall with a helicopter trying to make a rescue.
  • Amateur abseiler Captain Clulow spent four hours suspended 65 feet over one of the City of London's busiest roads in this nail-biting stunt painting the headline.
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