- A guide rope.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).
- (v.t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To bind, fasten or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
- (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
- (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.
- (n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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