rappel

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɛl/

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. (obsolete) to call back a hawk
2. to abseil

Borrowed from French rappel. Compare repeal.

rappel (plural rappels)

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

• lapper

• 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

• “rappel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• palper

rappel m (plural rappéis)

1. Alternative spelling of rapel

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. rappel