Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rope for hanging; the gallows-rope.
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"When the medicine that I shall give does its work, and the spirit is loosened from your body, let it not go afar, no, whatever tempts or threatens it, and suffer not that the death-cord be severed, lest flesh and ghost be parted for ever."
The Wizard Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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