rope : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel
  anchor chain.
  

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• a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.

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• a rope for fastening a boat; usually called a painter.

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• noun capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet
  

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• a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope.

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• a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. Knight.

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• (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope.

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Glass"-rope` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.

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Guess" rope"

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1. (Naut.) A guess warp.

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Guest" rope"

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1. (Naut.) The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• noun a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane
  

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• noun a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
  guy; guy wire; guy cable.
  

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• noun a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
  hempen necktie; hemp; hangman's halter; halter.
  

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• a plant, the hemp agrimony.

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• (Naut.), a rope which holds the jaws of a gaff to the mast.

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• noun a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it
  jump rope; skip rope.
  
• noun a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope
  

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• that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

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• rope laid up and twisted over from right to left, or against the sun; called also water-laid rope.

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• (Naut.), a rope or chain passing through the limbers of a ship, by which they may be cleared of dirt that chokes them. Totten.

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• noun either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship
  

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• a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

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• noun a bridge consisting of ropes
  

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• noun abrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope
  

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• verb lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
  abseil; rappel.
  
  • The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous
  • You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing

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• verb divide by means of a rope
  rope in; cordon off.
  
  • The police roped off the area where the crime occurred
• verb draw in as if with a rope; lure
  
  • The agent had roped in several customers

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• noun a ladder with side pieces of rope
  

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• a ladder made of ropes.

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• ., a mat made of cordage, or strands of old rope.

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• something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied upon.

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• verb divide by means of a rope
  rope in; cordon off.
  
  • The police roped off the area where the crime occurred

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• a pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope.

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• noun a ski tow offering only a moving rope to hold onto
  

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• (Mach.), a method of transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys.

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• verb attach to one another, for safety
  
  • The mountaineers roped up when they started the final ascent

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• noun workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made
  ropewalk.
  

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• noun the strands out of which ropes are made
  

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• a piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment.

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Rope's"-end` transitive verb

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1. To punish with a rope's end.

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• noun a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches
  

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• noun a craftsman who makes ropes
  roper; ropemaker.
  

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Rope"-yarn` noun

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1. the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

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• noun a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it
  jump rope; skip rope.
  

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• noun a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it
  jump rope; skip rope.
  

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• (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured preparatory to slipping. Totten.

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• noun capturing a steer with a lasso
  

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• (Naut.), a rope for turning a tiller. In a large vessel it forms the connection between the fore end of the tiller and the steering wheel.

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• to put on a preventer.

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• to be hanged.

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• to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked.

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• . (Naut.) (a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time . (b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block.

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• (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten.

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• (Naut.), to taper and neatly finish off the end by interweaving the nettles.

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• (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.

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• (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out.

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Top"-rope` noun

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1. (Naut.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.

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• noun (nautical) a rope used in towing
  towing line; towrope; towline.
  

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• a cart rope.

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• (Naut.), the chains or ropes connecting the wheel and rudder.

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• (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under Tiller.

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• (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.

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• a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of wires.

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