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leg-rope

leg-rope verb: to fasten a leg, usually of an animal, with a rope.

Verb

leg-rope (third-person singular simple present leg-ropes, present participle leg-roping, simple past and past participle leg-roped)

  1. To fasten a leg, usually of an animal, with a rope.
    • I never used to bother to leg-rope her, and being by this time an adept in milking, would swank for the benefit of the aforesaid select borders.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32

Forms of leg-rope

third-person singular presentleg-ropes
present participleleg-roping
past participleleg-roped
pastleg-roped

Questions about leg-rope

What does leg-rope mean?
Leg-rope means to fasten a leg, usually of an animal, with a rope.
What part of speech is leg-rope?
Leg-rope is a verb.
What is the past tense of leg-rope?
The past tense of leg-rope is leg-roped.

Words near leg-rope in the dictionary

  1. leg-pull
  2. leg-puller
  3. leg-pullers
  4. leg-pulling
  5. leg-pulls
  6. leg-rope
  7. leg-roped
  8. leg-ropes
  9. leg-roping
  10. leg-spinner
  11. leg-spinners

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