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footropes

footropes is the plural of footrope.

Meaning of footrope

Noun

footrope (plural footropes)

  1. a rope attached to the lower part of a sail
  2. a rope attached to a yard that sailors stood on to stabilize it when furling or reefing
  3. a rope or chain forming the bottom edge of a trawl net, helping to maintain the net's shape and depth in the water.

Questions about footropes

What is footropes the plural of?
Footropes is the plural of footrope.

Words near footropes in the dictionary

  1. footrest
  2. footrests
  3. footrim
  4. footroom
  5. footrope
  6. footropes
  7. footrot
  8. footrots
  9. footrub
  10. footrubs
  11. footrule

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footropes (page history and authors); footrope (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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