It's about time someone got you snubbed down with a short rope.

"This short rope you just hooked onto me: is that to be my safety line when I get down there?"

The bells hung high up on their own short ropes, and there was no way of ringing them at all.

A higher speed and/or a shorter rope makes the task more difficult.

Then they were moving, her horses snubbed to his by a short rope.

The short rope had a wooden peg on each end.

To maintain contact without bumping, each will hold one end of a short rope.

For a dog to attack another, it would have to turn upon one at a shorter rope.

I'm going to keep a short rope on you for the rest of our lives.

He'd need a keel-a heavy rock on a short rope.