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Definition of Rope up
1. Verb. Attach to one another, for safety. "The mountaineers roped up when they started the final ascent"
Definition of Rope up
1. Verb. (transitive) to tie up using a rope. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to attach oneself to a rope ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rope Up
Literary usage of Rope up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Life in Prison by Donald Lowrie (1912)
"After he's put the block in the noose the hangman throws the other end of the
rope up over the crossbeam, and I climb up there and hold it. ..."
2. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"Haul these taut, lay the rope up again, and the knot will appear like Fig. 29.
... Lay the rope up again as before, to where the next knot is to be made, ..."
3. Manual of Heavy Artillery Service: For the Use of the Army and Militia of by John Caldwell Tidball (1891)
"Pass the end of a rope up ... Form a bight in a rope and lay the end across the
standing part; stick the bight of another rope up ..."
4. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"Haul these taut, lay the rope up again, and the knot will appear like Fig. 43.
... Lay the rope up again as before, to where the next knot is to be made, ..."
5. The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections by Phineas Garrett (1904)
"The scaffolding had been taken down without remembering to take the rope up.
There was a dead silence. They all knew it was impossible to throw the rope up ..."
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