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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?