carabiner
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editShortened from German Karabinerhaken. Related to carabine and carbine.
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editcarabiner (plural carabiners)
- A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.
- 1992 February 2, Jen Wofford, “Activists Protest Price of AIDS Drug”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5:
- A carrabeener (metal clasp used in rock climbing) inside the pipes was devised as a release out, a tactic lent to them by Greenpeace.
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editmetal link with a gate
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