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ropery|ˈrəʊpərɪ|
Also 6 roppery, roparie, 6–7 -erie.
[f. rope n.1 + -ery.]
1. A place where ropes are made; a rope-walk.
In early quots. as a locality in London.
1363Lett. Bks. Lond. G. fol. 133 De Grossers in Roperie, c s. [1382Ibid. H. fol. 138 b, In parochia Omnium Sanctorum in Roperia.] 1598Stow Surv. London vii. (1603) 42 Wolfes gate in the roparie in the Parrish of Alhallowes.
1744J. Wilson Synop. Brit. Plants 55 Musk Thistle,..on the ropery, by the sides of the road to the glass-houses. 1775Swinburne Trav. Spain (1779) xvii. 123 The new ropery, and the forges where they put fresh touch-holes into old cannon. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1072 This rope is fixed at the head and foot of the ropery. 1885L'pool Daily Post 30 June 4/5 He had a lease of a shipbuilding yard and ropery.
2. Trickery, knavery, roguery. Now only arch.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 154 Nur. I pray you sir, what sawcie Merchant was this that was so full of his roperie? Rom. A Gentleman Nurse, that loues to heare himselfe talke, and will speake more in a minute, then he will stand to in a Moneth. 1618Fletcher Chances iii. i, You'll leaue this roperie [2nd fol., Roguery] when you come to my yeares. 1871Meredith Adv. Harry Richmond liii. III. 187 Your wife, your son, your dupes, every soul that touches you, mildews from a blight! You were born of ropery. |