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Definition of Headropes
1. headrope [n] - See also: headrope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headropes
Literary usage of Headropes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Composition and Rhetoric by John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson (1915)
"... many men were killed, and cattle rigid in their headropes. Then I heard that
fearful sound which never I had heard before, neither since have heard, ..."
2. The Battle of Tofrek: Fought Near Suâkin, March 22nd, 1885, Under Major by William Galloway (1887)
"To pull on their headropes, either on foot or horseback, was found equally useless,
and many of them strayed into the bush, which was full of them, ..."
3. Official History of the Operations in Somaliland, 1901-04 by Great Britain War Office. General Staff (1907)
"The brands should be carefully selected, as Somalis copy them easily, and besides
branding irons a veterinary chest, headropes, mange dressings and a spring ..."
4. Captain Cartwright and His Labrador Journal by George Cartwright (1911)
"at the other to capstans, which are fixed on this island; by these means, the
headropes are either lowered to the bottom, or raised to the surface of the ..."
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