crack-hemp Copy link • crack-hemp, or -rope (a knave fit for the gallows): furcĭfer, crux, pătĭbŭlum: v. gallows-bird.
rope Copy link Outline 1. fūnis, is, m.2. restis, is, f. (usu. a thinner kind of r., Habicht)3. rŭdens, ntis, usu. m.; less freq. f. (cordage)4. rĕtĭnācŭlum (mooring-cable)5. vincŭlum6. lăqueus • rope: 1. fūnis, is, m.: the r.s which fastened the yards to the masts, funes qui antennas ad malos destinabant, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: Virg. Dimin., fūnĭculus: Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154. 2. restis, is, f. (usu. a thinner kind of r., Habicht): the maidens marched, holding a r. with their hands, per manus reste data virgines incesserunt, Liv. 27, 37. Dimin., restĭculus: Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 5. 3. rŭdens, ntis, usu. m.; less freq. f. (cordage): the rattle of the r.s, stridor rudentum, Virg. Aen. 1, 87: I twine this r. for you, hanc tibi ... rudentem complico, Pl. Rud. 4, 3, 1. 4. rĕtĭnācŭlum (mooring-cable): the ships loose the r.s, solvunt retinacula naves, Ov. Met. 15, 696. 5. vincŭlum: v. band, chain. 6. lăqueus: v. halter. Phr.: wire r., textus adamas, Sen. Her. F. 807: r. of thongs, loreus funis, Cat. 5, 3: to make a r. of sand, ex arena funem efficere, Col. 10, praef. 5: weaving r.s. of sand, de arena resticulas nectentes, Iren. 2, 10, 1.
ROPE Copy link • ROPEfunis (a thick rope): restis (a small rope): rudens (sail rope): retinaculum, ora (anchor rope, cable). To stretch a rope, funem extendere: to dance on the tight rope, per funem ingredi (Quint.); per funem extentum ire (Hor., Ep.); per extentum funem ponere vestigia (Cic., Manil. 5, 652).