| 单词 | rope-girt | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasrope-girt  b.   With past participles or adjectives, as  rope-fastened,  rope-girt,  rope-muscled,  rope-shaped,  rope-soled,  rope-swung, etc. ΚΠ 1680    R. L'Estrange tr.  Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xx. 255  				He would take Care that this Tribe of Half-shod and Rope-girt People [L. cinctorum fune populus] should never fail. a1777    F. Fawkes tr.  Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics 		(1780)	  i. 54  				Here the rope-fasten'd stone they heave on shore, Which serv'd as anchor to the ship before. 1839    J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 		(ed. 3)	 450  				Rope-shaped,..formed of coarse fibres resembling cords. c1860    H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. 		(rev. ed.)	 37  				They have the advantage of rope-stropt leading blocks. 1876    M. Collins Blacksmith & Scholar II. 22  				A huge brown rope-muscled hand. 1892    D. B. W. Sladen Japs at Home xxvi  				Pilgrims of every degree, from the rope-shod pauper, to the swaggering plutocrat. 1907    Times 28 Dec. 6/3  				The sahib..reclining on the rude rope-strung bedstead. 1920    Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 507/2  				He was dressed quaintly in well-washed dungarees,..a gaudy waist-cloth, rope-soled shoes [etc.]. 1957    A. Clarke Too Great a Vine 23  				Rope-swung victims ring that bell. 2005    S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 79  				He should be carried up into the garden in a jewelled palanquin borne on the shoulders of wiry rope-sandalled men; why then was he on foot? < as lemmas  | 
	
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