Rope
111rope|walk|er — «ROHP W kuhr», noun. 1. a person who walks on a rope stretched high above the floor or ground. 2. = ropedancer. (Cf. ↑ropedancer) …
112rope|way — «ROHP WAY», noun. an overhead stretch of rope or cable along which heavy objects are carried: »A 27 mile ropeway high in the Himalayas is being built to speed trade between Tibet and northern India (Science News Letter) …
113rope off — index demarcate, isolate, seclude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
114rope ladder — rope .ladder n a ↑ladder made of two long ropes connected by wooden pieces that you stand on …
115rope tow — rope′ tow n. spog ski tow • Etymology: 1960–65 …
116rope|a|ble — «ROH puh buhl», adjective. 1. Australian. uncontrollable; wild; untamable. 2. Australian Slang. (of a person) intractable; obstinate; violently angry. Also, ropable …
117rope|danc|ing — «ROHP DAN sihng, DAHN », noun. the performance of a ropedancer …
118rope|walk — «ROHP WK», noun. a place where ropes are made. A ropewalk is usually a long, low shed …
119rope something off — ˌrope sthˈoff derived to separate an area from another one, using ropes, to stop people from entering it • Police roped off the street to investigate the accident. Main entry: ↑ropederived …
120Rope splicing — A line eye spliced to a snap shackle. Rope splicing in ropework is the forming of a semi permanent joint between two ropes or two parts of the same rope by partly untwisting and then interweaving their strands. Splices can be used to form a… …
