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crack-rope

noun

Etymology

From crack + rope.

  1. derived from *h₁roypnós✻ — “strap, band, rope”
  2. inherited from *raipaz✻
  3. inherited from *raip✻
  4. inherited from rāp — “rope, cord, cable”
  5. inherited from rop
  6. compounded as crack-rope — “crack + rope”

Definitions

  1. A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged

    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?
    • Then let him be led through every ſtreete in yᵉ towne, / That every crackrope, may throw rottē egs at yᵉ clown.
    • Hark ye, ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA