crack-ropes
crack-ropes is the plural of crack-rope.
Meaning of crack-rope
Noun
crack-rope (plural crack-ropes)
- A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird.
- Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell.
Carisophus. Handsomely, thou crack-rope?1564, Richard Edwardes, Damon and Pythias; republished in King, Ros, editor, The Works of Richard Edwards, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, page 153
- Synonyms:
- crack-hemp, gallows bird, wag-halter
- Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell.
Questions about crack-ropes
- What is crack-ropes the plural of?
- Crack-ropes is the plural of crack-rope.
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