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Definition of Ropery
1. n. A place where ropes are made.
Definition of Ropery
1. Noun. Any form of language used, typically slang or slander, that can get one in trouble. ¹
2. Noun. Hung on the end of a rope. ¹
3. Noun. A place where ropes are made; ropewalk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ropery
1. a place where ropes are made [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ropery
Literary usage of Ropery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, John Peter De Gex (1853)
"Lessees of premises, occupied by them as a ropery, agreed to withdraw their
opposition to a bill in Parliament for a Railway which would intersect the ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"ropery, ». Roguery ; anything deserving a rope. | Thou art very pleasant, and
fall of thy ropery. Three ladia of London. ROPES, ». ..."
3. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1871)
"The plaintiffs were the lessees and occupiers of certain premises which were used
by them as a ropery. The defendants proposed to construct a railway which ..."
4. Annals of the Liverpool Stage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by R. J. Broadbent (1908)
"THE OLD ropery THEATRE. This structure, which consisted of two large rooms, was
built by Alderman Thomas Steers, the constructor of the Old • Curiously ..."
5. Annals of the Liverpool Stage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by R. J. Broadbent (1908)
"THE OLD ropery THEATRE. This structure, which consisted of two large rooms, was
built by Alderman Thomas Steers, the constructor of the Old * Curiously ..."
6. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The горе-house, tarring-house, and other appendages of the ropery, are on the
same scale. The two sets of quadrangular store-houses, ..."
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