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ˈskipping-rope
[f. skipping vbl. n.1]
A piece of rope, sometimes with a wooden handle at each end, used in the pastime of skipping.
1802F. Burney Jrnl. (1975) V. 388 He interests himself warmly about them, since he has seen the Cuttings, especially of the skipping ropes. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 318 Stretching to catch two things like skipping-ropes. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour ix. 45 Just as a girl throws her skipping-rope. 1887R. N. Carey Uncle Max x, I showed her a new skipping-rope that I had bought on my way.
attrib.1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 798 The peculiar ‘skipping rope’ fibres, i.e. filaments with a knob at each end, which occur..in the mesoglaea of certain Ceratine sponges. |