Dictionary entry

Rope (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rope (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Roped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Roping.] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

Let us not hang like ropingicicles

Upon our houses' thatch. Shak.