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 Translation for 'rope ladder' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a rope ladder | rope ladders
kaðalstigi {k}rope ladder
Partial Matches
stigi {k}ladder
gras.T
jakobsstigi {k} [Polemonium caeruleum]
Jacob's ladder
lína {kv}rope
festi {kv} [kaðall]rope
kaðall {k}rope
veiðar
vaður {k}
rope
kapall {k}rope
reipi {hv}rope
kaðalspotti {k}short rope
unverified
læknisfr.
fleiður {hv}
rope burn
dráttartaug {kv}tow rope
kaðalspotti {k}short piece of rope
bjargsig {hv}descent of a cliff face by rope (to collect eggs)
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Usage Examples English
  • According to his own later memoirs, the original plan was to escape over the garden walls or from the dormitory with the help of a long rope-ladder.
  • He gets around in a flying house, and uses a rope ladder to literally drop in on a randomly selected guest and kidnap him or her to be interviewed on the show.
  • Between the world wars, Allan almost drowned after falling overboard in the North Atlantic — and would have done so had his captain not braved the precipitous storm, turned the ship around, and rescued him with the help of a life preserver and a rope ladder.
  • Usually, the only entrance to the castles would be via a rope ladder that would only be lowered for the villagers and could be kept away when invaders arrived.
  • Some relics of the Bastille survive: the Carnavalet Museum holds objects including one of the stone models of the Bastille made by Palloy and the rope ladder used by Latude to escape from the prison roof in the 18th century, while the mechanism and bells of the prison clock are exhibited in Musée Européen d'Art Campanaire at L'Isle-Jourdain.

  • Ratlines are climbing aids in rigging of sailing vessels similar to a rope ladder.
  • Junpei agrees and is guided down a rope ladder to a hut at the bottom of a sand dune, the home of a young woman.
  • Connors also recalled that he did the stuntwork of dangling from a rope ladder attached to a helicopter flying off the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio when the local stuntman refused to do it.
  • In the women's event, the rope ladder, sloping wall with rope, four steps of beams and vertical ladder are not negotiated.
  • "Udat" is compelled to jump back out with Mzu perilously hanging onto a rope ladder trailing from the blackhawk.

  • Some swing sets include play items other than swings, such as a rope ladder or sliding pole.
  • He reconnoitred positions personally and on one occasion (1 November 1918) climbed into a fort on a rope ladder.
  • Biggs served 15 months before escaping from Wandsworth Prison on 8 July 1965, scaling the wall with a rope ladder and dropping onto a waiting removal van.
  • According to the driver of Lin's limousine, there was no time to place mobile stairs next to the aircraft's entrance, so the party boarded via a rope ladder.
  • A merchant ship, "Jervis Bay", is in the Tony Palmer 1969 documentary on Jack Bruce: "Rope Ladder To The Moon" at 11m 23s; the ship "Jervis Bay" figures prominently as the camera pans right.

  • The Obstacle Course is the signature event of the Military Pentathlon, and is 500 metres long with 20 standard obstacles: Rope ladder; Double beam; Trip wires; Crawl; Stepping-stones; Vault; Balance beam; Sloping wall with rope; Horizontal beams; Irish table; Tunnel and twin beams; Four steps; Ramp and ditch; Low wall; 2m deep Pit; Vertical ladder; High wall; Zigzag balance beam; Chicane; Three low walls close together.
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