Usually means: Climbing with rope from above.
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  1. top-rope: Wordnik
  2. top-rope: Wiktionary
  3. Top-rope: Dictionary.com
  4. Top-rope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. top-rope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Top-rope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. top-rope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. top-rope: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Top-rope: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (top-rope)

noun:  (nautical) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
noun:  (climbing) A rope, used for the climber's safety, which runs from a belayer at the foot of a route through one or more carabiners connected to an anchor system at the top of the route and back down to the climber, usually attaching to the climber by means of a harness.
verb:  (climbing) To belay from a fixed anchor point above the climber.

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