Alternative forms

• man-rope

Etymology

From man +‎ ropeCategory:English compound terms#MANROPE.

Noun

manrope (plural manropes)Category:English lemmas#MANROPECategory:English nouns#MANROPECategory:English countable nouns#MANROPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MANROPECategory:Pages with entries#MANROPECategory:Pages with 1 entry#MANROPE

1. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#MANROPE) Each of the ropes used in ascending the side of a sailing ship.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.

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Anagrams

• repo man, ropeman