Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One destined to stretch a rope—that is, one who deserves to be hanged; a wretch fated to the gallows. Also called crack-rope.

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Examples

  • Avenel thou wert a wild-blood enough, but hadst thou been nurtured here, within a flight-shot of the Court, thou hadst been the veriest crack-hemp of a page that ever wore feather in thy bonnet or steel by thy side: truly, I wish it may end well with thee.”

    The Abbot 2008

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