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adj - pertaining to a type of acid
PRUSSIC - A Prusik ( PRUSS-ik) is a friction hitch or knot used to attach a loop of cord around a rope, applied in climbing, canyoneering, mountaineering, cavi...
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Medical bDefinitionb of bPRUSSICb ACID. : bhydrocyanicb acid. |
derived from Prussian blue |
of, or derived from prussic acid hydrocyanic |
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A Prusik ( PRUSS-ik) is a friction hitch or knot used to attach a loop of cord around a rope, applied in climbing, canyoneering, mountaineering, caving, rope rescue, ziplining, bondage, and by arborists. The term Prusik is a name for both the loops of cord and the hitch, and the verb is "to prusik". More casually, the term is used for any friction hitch or device that can grab a rope (see autoblock). The word is often misspelled as Prussik, Prussick or Prussic, as it is a homophone with the term prussic acid. * The Prusik hitch is named after its putative inventor, Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik. It was shown in a 1931 Austrian mountaineering manual for rope ascending. It was used on several mountaineering routes of the era to ascend the final summit, where a rope could be thrown over the top and anchored so that climbers could attain the summit by prusiking up the other side of the rope. * A prusik made from cord does little or no damage to the rope it is attached to, although some |