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rope

noun as in cord, line

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Benn held a wide lead going into the final round when he put Eubank down twice before triumphantly stepping up on to the ropes to celebrate when the final bell rang.

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If all of this sounds tiring, rope in one of your kids to help you out.

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“You know they are emotionally at the end of their rope. You know that physically this is a challenge.”

Then hundreds more workers arrived, some of them with ropes, animal fat, water, and oxen.

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Lippmann had staged this great game of tug-of-war, assembled a team to pull on his end of the rope, and now his teammates were in full flight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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