Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAgent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso. · A ropemaker (a maker of ropes). · One who ropes goods; a packer. · Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
From Middle English roper, ropere; equivalent to rope + -er.
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- Inherited-form mentionroperenm
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