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Definition of Manrope
1. n. One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship.
Definition of Manrope
1. Noun. (nautical) Each of the side ropes to a gangway or ladder of a ship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manrope
1. a rope used as a handrail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manrope
Literary usage of Manrope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Message from the President of the United States: Transmitting the Report of by United States (1898)
"When I got there the ladder was carried away, and somehow or other the manrope
kept fast upon deck, but the ladder got adrift from it down below in the ..."
2. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"manrope knot. de cabestan, swifter of a capstan: tiroir, m., drawer; (em. a. )
small flat sliding pin fixing the barrel to the stock (sporting arms); (mach. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"I laid hold of the manrope—" Now, men, there can be no tricka here, or they would
have shown themselves before now, so, follow me. ..."
4. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1794)
"... and in what manrope, - 46 18.' Of the riches which Spain drew from America*
52 ner Europe is ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1842)
"Une dirty scoundrel, if you could havo heard Ыш, rating the other for not swinging
the manrope handsomely into Gaspar's hand at once, ..."
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