| rope-a-dope | a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches |
| jump rope | a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope |
anchor chain
anchor rope | the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel |
| guide rope | a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
hangman's rope
hangman's halter
halter hemp
hempen necktie | a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging |
jump rope
skip rope
skipping rope | a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it |
R-
Mexican valium
rophy
rope roofy
roach forget me drug
circle | street names for flunitrazepan |
| ridge rope | either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship |
| rope | a strong line |
| rope bridge | a bridge consisting of ropes |
| rope ladder | a ladder with side pieces of rope |
| rope tow | a ski tow offering only a moving rope to hold onto |
ropewalk
rope yard | workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made |
| rope yarn | the strands out of which ropes are made |
towline
towrope
towing line
towing rope | (nautical) a rope used in towing |
ropemaker
rope-maker
roper | a craftsman who makes ropes |
| Indian hemp rheumatism weed Apocynum cannabinum | Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans, used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints |
hemp agrimony
Eupatorium cannabinum | coarse European herb with palmately divided leaves and clusters of small reddish-purple flower heads |
climbing hempweed
climbing boneset
wild climbing hempweed
climbing hemp-vine
Mikania scandens | herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers, climbs up trees |
kenaf
kanaf
deccan hemp
bimli
bimli hemp
Indian hemp Bombay hemp
Hibiscus cannabinus | valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation |
| kenaf deccan hemp | fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus |
Queensland hemp
jellyleaf
Sida rhombifolia | herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute, sometimes an aggressive weed |
| African hemp Sparmannia africana | large shrub of South Africa having many conspicuously hairy branches with large hairy leaves and clusters of conspicuous white flowers |
abaca
Manila hemp
Musa textilis | Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc |
false nettle
bog hemp | any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs |
Cannabidaceae
family Cannabidaceae
hemp family | two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus, term not used in all classifications, in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae |
cannabis
hemp | any plant of the genus Cannabis, a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers, yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs |
| Indian hemp Cannabis indica | source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber |
sansevieria
bowstring hemp | grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber |
African bowstring hemp
African hemp Sansevieria guineensis | bowstring hemp of South Africa |
Ceylon bowstring hemp
Sansevieria zeylanica | plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green |
| bowstring hemp | strong fiber that resembles hemp, obtained from sansevieria and used for e.g. cordage |
Colorado River hemp
Sesbania exaltata | tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure, yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage |
common osier
hemp willow
velvet osier
Salix viminalis | willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry |
hemp nettle
dead nettle Galeopsis tetrahit | coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle, common as a weed in United States |
| rope burn | abrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope |
| bowstring hemp | hemp obtained from the sansevieria |
| hemp | a plant fiber |
Manila hemp
Manilla hemp
abaca | a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines |
sisal
sisal hemp | a plant fiber used for making rope |
| rope in | draw in as if with a rope, lure, The agent had roped in several customers |
rope
leash | fasten with a rope, rope the bag securely |
| rope up | attach to one another, for safety, The mountaineers roped up when they started the final ascent |
rope in
rope off
cordon off | divide by means of a rope, The police roped off the area where the crime occurred |
lasso
rope | catch with a lasso, rope cows |
rappel
abseil
rope down | lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside, The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous, You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing |
hempen
fibrous | having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute |