Library / English Dictionary

ROPING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capturing cattle or horses with a lasso

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("roping" is a kind of...):

labor; labour; toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roping"):

calf roping (capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet)

steer roping (capturing a steer with a lasso)

Derivation:

rope (catch with a lasso)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb rope

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