Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragropes
Literary usage of Dragropes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition: Carried on by Order of the British by Francis Rawdon Chesney (1868)
"He had four horses and thirty men to assist with dragropes, and by great exertion
made about three miles, bringing up for the night in a cornfield about two ..."
2. The History of New Jersey: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption by Thomas Francis Gordon (1834)
"... 8 four pounders, 1 two pounder,! swivel 18 tumbrels and wagons, 25 ramrods
and screws, 16 port-fire stocks, 33 dragropes, 14 handspikes, 159 muskets, ..."
3. World's War Events: Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians and by Men by Allen Leon Churchill (1919)
"... with no thought of sleep, put their shoulders to wheels and dragropes to bring
their guns through the mire in support of the in- , ,, , , . ..."
4. World's War Events: Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians and by Men by Allen Leon Churchill (1919)
"Our gun- gunners- ners, with no thought of sleep, put their shoulders to wheels
and dragropes to bring their guns through the mire in support of the in- ..."
5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1920)
"Our gunners, with no thought of sleep, put their shoulders to wheels and dragropes
to bring their guns through the mire in support of the infantry, ..."
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