Meanings of descender in English

Now that I'd heard Crabbe's descender I realized that I hadn't heard Jack's.

The climber and descender of the stairs wanted Henry to search the cellar.

The rope was still there, and the descender used by Crabbe-butno sign of Jack's.

When the stair descender's upper torso appeared Gabriel saw that it was not Xavier at all but Baron von Zell.

And if they are pre-rigged, why does only one strand wrap around each descender, when both strands run through the holes?

They were odd steps, unusual steps, each level crisscrossed with black ridges that protruded above the surface, protecting the descender from the elements.

They were rappelling on each of these anchors with figure eight descenders.

The three descenders were gaudy Piccadilly boys reeking of snuff and gin.

I sweep contemptuously past a couple of cautious descenders, a nasty triumphant smile on my face.

Thanks to Jeff, we all replaced our figure eight descenders for the lightweight and compact tube-type belay devices.

Descenders With Descenders, you can play in quick blasts -if you can drag yourself away from it.

"Descender" has 20,000 descendant selectors, one for each anchor; for example:

His handwriting is affected by age, though only insofar as greater concentration on signing has exaggerated its sweeping ascenders and descenders.

The quickdraw, which may look superfluous, actually prevents the rope from falling off the the figure eight descenders should something go wrong.

Nervous descenders can quickly compound traffic down a trail and buzzing their rear wheel merely inflates the probability of an annoying, and avoidable, accident.

"Why did we only find Crabbe's descender?"