rappel

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

rappel (plural rappels)

1. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling.

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

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.
   • 1839, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 19, page 711:

     […] he has to retramp the same streets, rebeat the same rappel […]

• lapper

Borrowed from Spanish rappel, from French rappeler.

• IPA^(key): /rapel/ [ra.pel]
• Rhymes: -apel, -el

rappel inan

1. (climbing) rappel

• “rappel”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

• 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. (transitive) (A faulty product) subject to a recall. [from 20th c.]

   Veuillez nous le notifier immédiatement si vous savez ou suspectez qu'un produit puisse ou doive faire l'objet d'un rappel.

   Please notify us immediately if you suspect there is a possibility of products needing to become the subject of a recall.

5. abseil

• piqûre de rappel
• pour rappel

• → Catalan: ràpel
• → Dutch: rappel
  • → Indonesian: rapel
• → English: rappel
• → Portuguese: rapel
• → Romanian: rapel
• → Spanish: 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 rappels)

1. alternative spelling of rapel

• “rappel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. rappel