rope

Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

(countable) An individual length of such material.

The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.

2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN, page 138:

(slang, vulgar) A shot of semen released during ejaculation.

The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.

1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:

He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

(military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]

2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, →ISBN, page 7522:

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

(jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.

(nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

(archaic) A unit of length equal to twenty feet.

shooting ropes

(slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.

The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

en-noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

ropes (plural)
roap (alternative obsolete)
roape (alternative obsolete)

give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself

you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope

→ Irish: rópa

Tok Pisin: rop

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).


rope

The robber roped the victims.

(transitive) To tie (something) with rope.

The cowboy roped the calf.

(transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.

1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains, page 153:

(intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.

1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science (volume 1, page 132)

(transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.

In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]

2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153

ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”

2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36

Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.

2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:

My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

(Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.

en-verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

ropes (present singular third-person)
roping (participle present)
roped (participle past)
roped (past)

punoutua

to be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.


rope

the ropes of birds

ropes (plural)
rop (alternative dialectal)
rap (alternative dialectal)

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).
The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.