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dragrope

noun

Definitions

  1. A rope used to drag something.

    • Starting in 1818, a few women managed to break a the sex barrier that excluded them from active firefighting. [It was] hard work to draw the engine; but among the few who had hold of the dragrope was Molly, pulling away for dear life.
    • The side of our ship was wasp-coloured as befits a warship, black and yellow and streaming. Certainly the first operation of the dragrope had been successful until it jammed. There was no doubt of that.[…]

  2. Alternative form of drag rope (“rope carried in a hot air balloon”).

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