"dragrope" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Paul C. Ditzel, Fire Engines, Fire Fighters: The Men, Equipment, and Machines, from Colonial Days to the Present, Random House Value Pub",
          "text": "Starting in 1818, a few women managed to break a the sex barrier that excluded them from active firefighting. [It was] hard work to draw the engine; but among the few who had hold of the dragrope was Molly, pulling away for dear life.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013 November 5, William Golding, Close Quarters: With an introduction by Ronald Blythe, Faber & Faber",
          "text": "The side of our ship was wasp-coloured as befits a warship, black and yellow and streaming. Certainly the first operation of the dragrope had been successful until it jammed. There was no doubt of that.[…]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A rope used to drag something."
      ],
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          "extra": "rope carried in a hot air balloon",
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        "Alternative form of drag rope (“rope carried in a hot air balloon”)"
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  "word": "dragrope"
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          "ref": "1984, Paul C. Ditzel, Fire Engines, Fire Fighters: The Men, Equipment, and Machines, from Colonial Days to the Present, Random House Value Pub",
          "text": "Starting in 1818, a few women managed to break a the sex barrier that excluded them from active firefighting. [It was] hard work to draw the engine; but among the few who had hold of the dragrope was Molly, pulling away for dear life.",
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        {
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