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Rope vs. Hank

Rope and Hank Definitions

Rope

A flexible heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber.

Hank

A coil or loop.

Rope

A string of items attached in one line, especially by twisting or braiding
A rope of onions.

Hank

(Nautical) A ring on a stay attached to the luff of a jib or staysail.

Rope

A sticky glutinous formation of stringy matter in a liquid.

Hank

A looped bundle, as of yarn.
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Rope

A cord with a noose at one end for hanging a person.

Hank

A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.

Rope

Execution or death by hanging
To die by the rope.

Hank

(nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.

Rope

A lasso or lariat.

Hank

(Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
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Rope

Ropes(Sports) Several cords strung between poles to enclose a boxing or wrestling ring.

Hank

(Ulster) Mess, tangle.

Rope

Ropes(Informal) Specialized procedures or details
Learn the ropes.
Know the ropes.

Hank

A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

Rope

(Baseball) A line drive.

Hank

(obsolete) Hold; influence.
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Rope

To tie, fasten, or attach with a rope or other cord.

Hank

(wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

Rope

To enclose, separate, or partition with a rope or other cord
Rope off the scene of the crime.

Hank

(transitive) To form into hanks.

Rope

To catch with a rope or lasso.

Hank

To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

Rope

(Informal) To persuade or manipulate (someone)
My boss roped me into attending the ceremony.

Hank

A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

Rope

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.

Hank

A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

Rope

(countable) An individual length of such material.
The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

Hank

Hold; influence.
When the devil hath got such a hank over him.

Rope

A cohesive strand of something.
The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

Hank

A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.

Rope

A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

Hank

A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

Rope

(dated) A continuous stream.

Hank

To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

Rope

(baseball) A hard line drive.
He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

Hank

To form into hanks.

Rope

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

Hank

A coil of rope or wool or yarn

Rope

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

Rope

A kind of chaff material dropped to interfere with radar consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

Rope

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

Rope

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

Rope

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

Rope

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

Rope

(slang) Rohypnol.

Rope

Semen being ejaculated.

Rope

(with "the") Death by hanging.
The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

Rope

(in the plural) The small intestines.
The ropes of birds

Rope

(transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
The robber roped the victims.

Rope

(transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
The cowboy roped the calf.

Rope

(intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

Rope

(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

Rope

To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

Rope

A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

Rope

A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

Rope

The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

Rope

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
Let us not hang like ropingiciclesUpon our houses' thatch.

Rope

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

Rope

To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

Rope

To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.

Rope

To lasso (a steer, horse).

Rope

To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

Rope

To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

Rope

A strong line

Rope

Street names for flunitrazepan

Rope

Catch with a lasso;
Rope cows

Rope

Fasten with a rope;
Rope the bag securely

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