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boatropes

boatropes is the plural of boatrope.

Meaning of boatrope

Noun

boatrope (plural boatropes)

  1. A rope used for the rigging of a boat.
    • The seaboat is fully manned and half way to the water down the ship's side, on deck a team of hefty sailors stand ready with the boatrope in hand poised for the seaboat to hit the water.2016, Capt. C W Malins RN, Away Seaboat

Questions about boatropes

What is boatropes the plural of?
Boatropes is the plural of boatrope.

Words near boatropes in the dictionary

  1. boatpersons
  2. boatrace
  3. Boatright
  4. Boatrights
  5. boatrope
  6. boatropes
  7. boats
  8. boatsex
  9. boatsful
  10. boatshed
  11. boatsheds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boatropes (page history and authors); boatrope (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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