"crack-rope" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1564, Richard Edwardes, Damon and Pythias; republished in King, Ros, editor, The Works of Richard Edwards, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, page 153:",
          "text": "Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell.\nCarisophus. Handsomely, thou crack-rope?",
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          "ref": "1584, Anthony Munday, edited by Percy Simpson, Fidele and Fortunio, the Two Italian Gentlemen, The Malone Society, published 1909, page [55]:",
          "text": "Then let him be led through every ſtreete in yᵉ towne, / That every crackrope, may throw rottē egs at yᵉ clown.",
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          "ref": "1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (Waverley Novels; 7), London: Adam and Charles Black, published 1898, page 307:",
          "text": "Hark ye, ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief!",
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        "A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird."
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        "(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird."
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          "word": "gallows bird"
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          "word": "wag-halter"
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          "ref": "1564, Richard Edwardes, Damon and Pythias; republished in King, Ros, editor, The Works of Richard Edwards, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, page 153:",
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