noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 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. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From self- + arrest.

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