King James Bible Dictionary

Threefold
Ecclesiastes 4:12

Worn on the head as an emblem of servitude
1 Kings 20:31-32

Used in casting lots
Micah 2:5

Figurative:

Of love
Hosea 11:4

Of affliction
Job 36:8

Of temptations
Psalms 140:5; Proverbs 5:22

ROPE, noun

1. A large string or line composed of several strands twisted together. It differs from cord, line and string, only in its size; being the name given to all sorts of cordage above an inch in circumference. Indeed the smaller ropes, when used for certain purposes, are called lines.

ROPEs are by seamen ranked under two descriptions, cable-laid, and hawser-laid; the former composed of nine strands, or three great strands, each consisting of three small ones; the latter made with three strands, each composed of a certain number of rope-yarns.

2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united; as a rope of onions.

3. Ropes, the intestines of birds.

ROPE of sand, proverbially, feeble union or tie; a band easily broken.

ROPE, verb intransitive To draw out or extend into a filament or thread, by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Any glutinous substance will rope considerably before it will part.

RO'PE-BAND, [See Robbin.]

ROPE-BANDS, noun [rope and bands.] Short flat plaited pieces of rope with an eye in one end, used in pairs to tie the upper edges of square sails to their yards.

RO'PE-DANCER, noun [rope and dancer.]

One that walks on a rope suspended.

RO'PE-LADDER, noun A ladder made of ropes.

RO'PE-MAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make ropes or cordage. [I do not know that roper is ever used.]

RO'PE-MAKING, noun The art or business of manufacturing ropes or cordage.

RO'PERY, noun

1. A place where ropes are made. [Not used in the United States.]

2. A trick that deserves the halter.

RO'PE-TRICK, noun A trick that deserves the halter.

RO'PE-WALK, noun A long covered walk, or a long building over smooth ground, where ropes are manufactured.

RO'PE-YARN, noun Yarn for ropes, consisting of a single thread. The threads are twisted into strands, and the strands into ropes.