karabiner

1. 1.

   an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes

   Synonymscarabinersnap ring

   Broaderhoopfastener

Other forms of karabiner

plural

karabiners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about karabiner

What does karabiner mean?

karabiner means "an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes".

How many syllables are in karabiner?

karabiner has 4 syllables: ka-ra-bi-ner. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for karabiner?

Close synonyms include carabiner, snap ring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is karabiner a common word?

karabiner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.