(n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(2) Others think it's all a bit of a laugh and quite OK." She expects Harry to rappel down into her garden from the plane trees in the Royal Hospital grounds.
(3) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(4) One sailor also died and three people were detained in the operation that began yesterday afternoon with special forces rappelling down from helicopters and carrying out door-to-door identity checks and weapons searches.
(5) He wore a Kevlar vest with harnesses for rappelling and parachuting, and a night-vision camera with a 180-degree field of vision.
(6) Her feat of extreme rappelling, descending 94m down the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth on Sunday, reminded me that the spirit of adventure, of discovery and the need to defy death are innate in all of us regardless of our age.
(7) Included were 71 controls, 64 young athletes examined just before their exercise, 14 volunteers who were examined 10-20 min before engagement in rappelling while an additional group of 20 were examined just before the act as they were facing an abyss from the top of a cliff.
(8) Greenpeace activists surprised us in the early morning hours Wednesday when they rappelled down ropes from the St John’s Bridge overhead, their orange and yellow banners waving in the breeze.
(9) In July, protesters from the organisation rappelled from a bridge in Portland and delayed the passage of the Fennica from the dry dock where it had been repaired.