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leg-roping

leg-roping is the present participle and gerund of leg-rope.

Meaning of leg-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

Questions about leg-roping

What is leg-roping the present participle and gerund of?
Leg-roping is the present participle and gerund of leg-rope.

Words near leg-roping in the dictionary

  1. leg-pulling
  2. leg-pulls
  3. leg-rope
  4. leg-roped
  5. leg-ropes
  6. leg-roping
  7. leg-spinner
  8. leg-spinners
  9. leg-up
  10. leg-warmer
  11. leg-warmers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leg-roping (page history and authors); leg-rope (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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