Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for grasping and holding a rope.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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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