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dragrope en · NOUN

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1. A rope used to drag something.
   • Starting in 1818, a few women managed to break a the sex barrier that excluded them from active firefighting. [It was] hard work to draw the engine; but among the few who had hold of the dragrope was Molly, pulling away for dear life. 1984, Paul C. Ditzel, Fire Engines, Fire Fighters: The Men, Equipment, and Machines, from Colonial Days to the Present, Random House Value Pub, →ISBN:
   • The side of our ship was wasp-coloured as befits a warship, black and yellow and streaming. Certainly the first operation of the dragrope had been successful until it jammed. There was no doubt of that.[…] 2013 November 5, William Golding, Close Quarters: With an introduction by Ronald Blythe, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of drag rope (“rope carried in a hot air balloon”).
   alt of drag rope

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