"rope" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A slightly heavier variation has two ropes supporting a deck, and two handrail ropes.
- The heavy rope supporting the ladder rattled through the pulley, bringing up a light line-hardly more than a stout cord-and on this cord the cushions were raised.
- But for the opposition, Michael Ancram, backing the same text, supported Straw like a rope supporting a hanging man.
- On February 15, 1905, the Cairo swirled with intrigue when, during a labor union strike, painter J. Frank Hanby fell to his death when the ropes supporting him broke.
- This means that the two parts of the rope supporting the moving block must each support half the load.
- Thus, the mechanical advantage of the system can be determined by counting the number of sections of rope supporting the load.
- The gibbet could be operated by cutting the rope supporting the blade or by pulling out the pin that held the rope.
- The rope supporting Marcone had been secured with a hasty knot, easily undone.
- Andrew hung against his tree, limp, the ropes supporting him.
- The rope supporting her passed over a beam, slippery with sweat and condensation, and was secured, taut as a cable, through an iron ring in the floor.
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