Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A device for grasping and holding a rope.

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Examples

  • Never again can I swing dizzily aloft and trust all the proud quick that is I to a single rope-clutch in the driving blackness of storm.

    Chapter 36 2010

  • Never again can I swing dizzily aloft and trust all the proud quick that is I to a single rope-clutch in the driving blackness of storm.

    Chapter XXXVI 1913

  • Never again can I swing dizzily aloft and trust all the proud quick that is I to a single rope-clutch in the driving blackness of storm.

    John Barleycorn Jack London 1896

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