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rope
v. tr. to catch a horse or bullock with a noosedrope. It comes from the Western United States, wher...
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to rope in
To take or sweep in collectively; an expression much used in colloquial language at the West. It ori...
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Cable, George Washington
(b. 1844) American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881...
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