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Date "ROPE-WALK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rope-walk [barristers' slang]. Old Bailey practice. Thus, "Gone into the rope-walk" means, he has taken up practice in the Old Bailey. (See Ropes .) The ways of London low life are called "ropes" and to know the ropes means to be au fait with the fait of all sorts of dodges. (See Ropes.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROPE-WALK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | въжарска работилница (ropework). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ope-walkray repslagarbana. (various references) bâi bện dây thừng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ropewalk. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-l-o-p-r-w" | |
-2 letters: parole, plower, prelaw, walker. | |
-3 letters: awoke, laker, loper, lower, opera, paler, pareo, parle, parol, pawer, pearl, poker, polar, poler, polka, power, prole, prowl, rowel, waker, waler, wreak. | |
-4 letters: aero, aloe, alow, aper, awol, earl, kale, kelp, koel, kola, kore, lake, lark, leak, leap, lear, lope, lore, lowe, okra, olea, opal, oral, orle, pale. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-l-o-p-r-w" | |
+1 letter: ropewalks, workplace. | |
+2 letters: ropewalker, workplaces. | |
+3 letters: plasterwork, ropewalkers, sparrowlike. | |
+4 letters: plasterworks. | |
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