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Definition of Roping

1. Noun. Capturing cattle or horses with a lasso.

Definition of Roping

1. Verb. (present participle of rope) ¹

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Definition of Roping

1. rope [v] - See also: rope

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roping

Literary usage of Roping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices by William R. Bagnall (1893)
"... complete the said three machines, and also a roping machine, and to construct such other machines as are necessary for the purpose of carding, roping, ..."

2. A Treatise Upon Wire, Its Manufacture and Uses, Embracing Comprehensive by J. Bucknall Smith (1891)
"class of plant under the term of "a patent non-torsional rope-making machine," and by which, it is state<i, that wires are laid into strands and roping free ..."

3. The Spanish-American Republics by Theodore Child (1891)
"In fact it is one of the little incidents of mountain travel- roping CATTLE AT PUNTA NEGRA. ling that amuses the novice, for the aspect of a mule with his ..."

4. Commercial Geography by Albert Perry Brigham (1911)
"roping calves for branding on the western plains of New Mexico and Arizona. The cattle region extends northward through Kansas and Nebraska, ..."

5. Commercial Geography by Albert Perry Brigham (1911)
"roping calves for branding on the western plains of New Mexico and Arizona. The cattle region extends northward through Kansas and Nebraska, ..."

6. Commercial Geography by Albert Perry Brigham (1911)
"Cattle raising is the foremost industry of the Southwest, a region including much of Colorado, over half of Texas, and nearly all FIG. 29. roping calves for ..."

7. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by United States, John Allan Mallory (1917)
"Cotton waste and flocks, manufactured or otherwise advanced in value, cotton card laps, roping, sliver, or roving, 5 per centum ad valorem. ..."

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