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roping

verb as in tape

verb as in tether

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Traversal in “Syndicate” shines with the grapple-gun, a device that shoots rope out of your arm.

The Hainan gibbons’ adoption of the bridge suggests that other primates may also use rope bridges in fragmented forests, says Susan Cheyne.

The narrow rope fills cracks ¼ inch to ½ inch wide, and the wider rope fills cracks ½ inch to one inch wide.

She returned two weeks later, again with Honnold, but took a terrible fall on the first pitch, which ultimately sent her to the hospital with a severe rope burn across her neck.

This is the mussel’s attachment to the rocks or rope or whatever it was growing on.

Bud reminded her that she had not done any cursing at the time, being in his opinion too busy roping him in to support her.

The cowmen were roping and rushing the stock that did not belong to them.

There the foreman waited until the lad had gotten within roping distance.

When it comes to putting my wits against a spook place, I'm beyond roping distance.

Roping up, we made an ascent half-way to the top which rose five hundred feet and commanded a grand panorama of glacier and coast.

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On this page you'll find 324 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roping, such as: allure, bag, bait, beckon, beguile, and bewitch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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