Obs. or arch. a. A rope used as a trace for drawing a wain. (Cf. cart-rope.) b. A rope used for binding or securing a load on a wain.
1371. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 129. ij waynraps novi. Ibid. (1441–2), 79. Item in 2 Waynrapes et 4 helteres empt., 12 d.
1523–34. Fitzherb., Husb., § 5. And or he shall lode his corne, he muste haue a wayne, a copyoke, a payre of sleues, a wayne rope, and a pykforke.
1581. Inv., in Trans. Cumb. & Westm. Arch. Soc., X. 40. Item Waine Ropes, x vj d.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., III. ii. 64. I thinke Oxen and waine-ropes cannot hale them together.
