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self-arrests

self-arrests is the plural of self-arrest.

Meaning of self-arrest

Noun

self-arrest (countable and uncountable, plural self-arrests)

  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.

Questions about self-arrests

What is self-arrests the plural of?
Self-arrests is the plural of self-arrest.

Words near self-arrests in the dictionary

  1. self-archive
  2. self-archived
  3. self-archives
  4. self-archiving
  5. self-arrest
  6. self-arrests
  7. self-ascribed
  8. self-assemble
  9. self-assembled
  10. self-assembles
  11. self-assembling

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