† rope-overadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: with muscles like strands of rope.
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1887 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 104 Lank Rope-over thigh; knee-nave; and barrelled shank.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adj.1887- to proclaim a fine
- to proclaim from the house-top
- to proclaim from the house-tops
- to proclaim from the housetop
- to proclaim from the housetops
- to proclaim on the house-top
- to proclaim on the house-tops
- to proclaim on the housetop
- to proclaim on the housetops
- to put to the scamper
- to put to the squeak
- to put to the sword
- to put to the torture
- to put to the touch
- to put to the trouble
- to put to the upon the flight
- to put to the vote
- to put to the worse
- to put to the worst
- to put to torture
- to put to trouble
- to put to upon his trump or trumps
- to put to upon the flight
- to put to use
- to put to villainy