Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where ropes are made.
- noun Knavery; roguery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place where ropes are made.
- noun obsolete Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any form of language used, typically slang or slander, that can get one in trouble.
- noun Hung on the end of a rope.
- noun A place where ropes are made;
ropewalk .
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Examples
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To bed with one like footrasp373 or the roughest ropery:
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I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?
Romeo and Juliet 2004
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There was a ropery which extended from the corner of the present Berry-street (called after Captain Berry, who built the first house in it), to the roperies which occupied the site of the present
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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There was a field at one time to the north of the ropery skirted by hedges which went down the site of the present Hood-street, and round to where there is now
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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This was afterwards converted into a ropery and succeeded by Parr-street.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?
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Nanscawne lands, and spent it on cards and ropery.
Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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You were born of ropery, and you go at it straight, like a webfoot to water.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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You were born of ropery, and you go at it straight, like a webfoot to water.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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You were born of ropery, and you go at it straight, like a webfoot to water.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8 George Meredith 1868
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