top-rope

See also: toprope

English

Noun

top-rope (plural top-ropes)

  1. (nautical) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.

Verb

top-rope (third-person singular simple present top-ropes, present participle top-roping, simple past and past participle top-roped)

  1. (climbing) To belay from a fixed anchor point above the climber.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for top-rope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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