portaledge means A portable tent system used by rock climbers to sleep in during a climb lasting multiple days. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 96 out of 100.
Etymology
Blend of portable + ledge.
noun
- A portable tent system used by rock climbers to sleep in during a climb lasting multiple days.“A ferocious storm kept the two men trapped on a portaledge—an artificial tent platform hung from pitons over the vertical void—for seven days and nights.”