Rope
[rəʊp] or [rop]
Definition
(noun.) a strong line.
(verb.) fasten with a rope; 'rope the bag securely'.
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Definition
(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
(n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
(v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
(v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
(v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
(v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
(v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).
(v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
(v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Be ropy or viscous.
Checker: Nellie
Definition
n. a thick twisted cord: a string consisting of a number of things united as a rope of pearls: anything glutinous and stringy: a local lineal measure 20 feet.—v.i. to fasten with a rope to restrain: to catch with a noosed rope: to tether: to enclose: to extend into a thread as by a glutinous quality.—ns. Rope′-clamp a pair of clamping jaws for securing the end of a cord; Rope′-danc′er one who performs acrobatic feats on a rope: a rope-walker; Rope′-drill′ing a method of boring holes in which a rope is used; Rope′-house an evaporating-house in salt manufacture; Rope′-ladd′er a ladder made of ropes; Rope′-machine′ a machine for making ropes from yarn; Rope′-māk′er Rō′per a maker of ropes; Rope′-māk′ing; Rope′-por′ter a pulley to save the ropes of steam-ploughs from friction; Rope′-pull′ing the sport of pulling at a rope each party endeavouring to draw the other over a line; Rope′-pump a machine for raising water by an endless rope; Rō′per a crafty fellow: one who throws the lasso; Rope′-rail′way a cable-railway.—adj. Rope′-ripe deserving to be hanged.—ns. Rope′-run′ner a railway brakesman; Rō′pery a place where ropes are made; Rope′-spin′ner one who spins ropes by a revolving wheel; Rope′-stitch a kind of work in which the stitches are laid diagonally side by side; Rope′-trick a juggling trick in which a man is firmly tied with ropes from which he extricates himself: (Shak.) a trick deserving the gallows; Rope′-walk a long narrow shed used for the spinning of ropes; Rope′-winch a set of three whirlers for twisting simultaneously the three yarns of a rope; Rope′-yarn a yarn of many fibres for ropes.—adv. Rō′pily.—n. Rō′piness stringiness: viscosity.—adjs. Rō′ping Rō′pish Rō′py stringy glutinous.—Rope in to gather in to enlist; Rope of sand a tie easily broken; Rope's end an instrument of punishment.—Be at the end of one's rope to have exhausted one's powers or resources; Give a person rope to allow a person full scope; On the high rope elated arrogant.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs, and uncertain love making. If you climb one, you will overcome enemies who are working to injure you. To decend{sic} a rope, brings disappointment to your most sanguine moments. If you are tied with them, you are likely to yield to love contrary to your judgment. To break them, signifies your ability to overcome enmity and competition. To tie ropes, or horses, denotes that you will have power to control others as you may wish. To walk a rope, signifies that you will engage in some hazardous speculation, but will surprisingly succeed. To see others walking a rope, you will benefit by the fortunate ventures of others. To jump a rope, foretells that you will startle your associates with a thrilling escapade bordering upon the sensational. To jump rope with children, shows that you are selfish and overbearing; failing to see that children owe very little duty to inhuman parents. To catch a rope with the foot, denotes that under cheerful conditions you will be benevolent and tender in your administrations. To dream that you let a rope down from an upper window to people below, thinking the proprietors would be adverse to receiving them into the hotel, denotes that you will engage in some affair which will not look exactly proper to your friends, but the same will afford you pleasure and interest. For a young woman, this dream is indicative of pleasures which do not bear the stamp of propriety.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.
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Examples
- Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He carries with him this coil of rope. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For the latter something less flexible than rope is needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rope sped with singing whir high above the heads of the blacks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They had helped to release the rope, and of course not. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Weight of gun, carriage, limber, drag ropes, tools, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With a man on each side holding these ropes, the mule was released from his other bindings and allowed to rise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- See the old villain bound with ropes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There were some twenty men running hither and thither about the deck, pulling and hauling on ropes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Calypso sighing for Ulysses, observed Crispin, without altering his position; though I dare say it is only the wind moaning through the ropes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But this last new horse I have got is trying to break his neck over the tent-ropes, and I shall have to go out and anchor him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ropes, cords, coarse bands of leather were the common provisions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We roped both cars together and pulled. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- An object when disturbed vibrates in a manner peculiar to itself, the vibration being slow, as in the case of the long-roped swing, or quick, as in the case of the short-roped swing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And thus, by painstaking and continued practice, he learned the art of roping. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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