单词 | rope boy |
释义 | > as lemmasrope boy rope boy n. ΚΠ 1858 Friends' Intelligencer 9 Oct. 475/2 (heading) The Rope Boy... After walking some distance, she came to a rope-walk... At one end of the building she saw a little boy turning a large wheel. 1952 Landfall Sept. 206 Ropeboys just standing can feel cocky pride in shouting. 1970 Guardian 26 Nov. 13/2 A rope boy, in climbing diction, is a second man who spends patient hours securely belayed as he holds or pays out the rope for a leader. 2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 July b1 At 8 he became a rope boy, keeping lines taut to control the crush of crowds. At 14, he began supervising the rope boys. < as lemmas |
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