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单词 ropes end
释义

rope's endn.

Brit. /ˌrəʊps ˈɛnd/, U.S. /ˌroʊps ˈɛnd/
Forms: late Middle English roppys end, 1500s roapes end, 1500s roopes ende, 1500s ropes ende, 1600s– ropes end, 1600s– rope's end, 1800s– ropes' end.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rope n.1, end n.
Etymology: < the genitive of rope n.1 + end n. Compare later rope-end n.
1. The end of a rope; (historical) a short piece of rope used for flogging, esp. for flogging a sailor.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with rope
rope's enda1475
starting1802
rope's-ending1806
colting1834
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rope
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rope-end1583
salt eel1622
colt1780
teaser1910
a1475 How Good Wife wolde Pylgremage l. 46 in T. F. Mustanoja How Good Wife taught her Daughter (1948) 174 (MED) Take not euery roppys end witt euery man þat hallys.
1593 P. Stubbes Motive to Good Wks. 125 They account it also a worke of great merite, to disple, to whip, & scourge themselues with whippes made of ropes endes, of cordes, and some of wyre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 16 To what end did I bid thee hie thee home? E. Dro. To a ropes end sir, and to that end am I return'd. View more context for this quotation
1663 S. Pepys Diary 23 June (1971) IV. 193 I beat him and then went up to fetch my ropes end.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 196 With Ropes-ends laying one another over the Shoulders.
1704 Boston News-let. 17 July 3/2 The French men..used the Mate and Boy very hardly..beating them with Ropes ends.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Bouts de corde, a cat of nine tails, scourge, or rope's end for punishment.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. xiii. 287 I allow them to carry ropes-ends in their pockets to touch up the lazy fellows.
1847 H. Melville Omoo xi Fastening a rope's end to each sleeper, he rove the lines through a number of blocks.
1887 W. Besant World Went xiv If you anger me more, you shall taste the rope's-end.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 316/2 The word [graft] is applied.., as a nautical term, to the ‘whipping’ or ‘pointing’ of a rope's end with fine twine to prevent unravelling.
1953 J. Masefield Conway (rev. ed.) iv. 217 The rope's end, or teaser, made one learn very quickly.
1969 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (1970) iii. 88 He heard oaths, laughter, the impact of a rope's end as a bosun's mate started a torpid bewildered hand.
2. A hangman's noose.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > noose or rope
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tether?a1513
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Tyburn tippet1549
John Roper's window1552
neckweed1562
noose1567
horse-nightcap1593
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Tyburn tiffany1612
piccadill1615
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Tyburn piccadill1620
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St. Johnston's riband1638
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Bridport daggera1661
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Stolypin's necktie1909
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1663 W. Clark Marciano iv. v. 49 He hath played me such a trick as may bring me to a ropes end yet..Harke—my Lord Borasco searching me, I shall be hang'd without doom or sentence.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Prol. sig. A4v I hereby promise to furnish them with twice as much as will do their business, on free cost, as often as they will take the pains to dance at a Rope's end.
1788 Vulcan’s Rebuke 39 Peter..with whom the muses were stark mad in love, (Ready to hang themselves from some rope's end).
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 111 I cannot see the pleasure men propose by dangling in a rope's-end betwixt earth and heaven.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iv. i. 200 If we fell to be recognised..I should be kicking in a rope's-end.
1935 Lubbock (Texas) Morning Avalanche 20 Aug. 9/5 (heading) Former Village Hangman is Facing Death at Rope's End.
1997 T. Hughes Tales from Ovid 181 Making a noose And fitting it round her neck She jumped into air, jerked at the rope's end, And dangled, and spun.

Phrases

not to care a rope's end for: to care nothing about (now rare); also † not to value (of) a rope's end (obsolete).
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1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 44 As for your Love or your liking, I don't value it of a Rope's end.
1710 S. Centlivre Bickerstaff's Burying i. 2 1 Sail. I care not a Rope's-end if she does.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxviii. 215 I don't value your crackers of a rope's end.
1797 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Wife I. xvii. 279 To show him they did not value him nor his jaw a rope's end.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. viii. 178 Uncle Bat..did not care a rope's end for Undy Scott.
1887 W. Besant World went very well Then (1888) xxix. 277 True or not true, I care not a rope's-end.
1925 E. Phillpotts Up Hill, down Dale 235 I..didn't care a rope's end who won the War.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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