Rope vs. Hank

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. t

Example: ‘Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.’;

(countable) An individual length of such material.

Example: ‘The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.’;

A cohesive strand of something.

(dated) A continuous stream.

(baseball) A hard line drive.

Example: ‘He hit a rope past third and into the corner.’;

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.s

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

(slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.

A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.

(in the plural) The small intestines.

Example: ‘the ropes of birds’;

(transitive) To tie (something) with something.

Example: ‘The robber roped the victims.’;

(transitive) To throw a rope around (something).

Example: ‘The cowboy roped the calf.’;

(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

(slang) To commit suicide

Example: ‘My life is a mess, I might as well rope.’;

A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

Example: ‘Let us not hang like ropingiciclesUpon our houses' thatch.’;

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.

To lasso (a steer, horse).

To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

a strong line

street names for flunitrazepan

catch with a lasso;

Example: ‘rope cows’;

fasten with a rope;

Example: ‘rope the bag securely’;

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form. Ropes have tensile strength and so can be used for dragging and lifting.

A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.

(nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.

(Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.

(Ulster) Mess, tangle.

A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

(obsolete) Hold; influence.

(wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

(transitive) To form into hanks.

To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

Hold; influence.

Example: ‘When the devil hath got such a hank over him.’;

A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.

A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

To form into hanks.

a coil of rope or wool or yarn

Hank is a male given name. It may have been inspired by the Dutch name Henk, itself a short form of Hendrik and thus related to Henry & Harvey.