Naut. [f. YARD sb.2 + ROPE sb.1] † a. (pl.) The permanent rigging of a yard.

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1336–7.  Acc. Exch. K. R., 19/31 m. 4 (P.R.O.). In viij. petris cord’ de canabo … pro duobus yerderopes inde faciendis.

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1356.  in Pipe Roll 32 Edw. III., m. 34/2. xlvij. trusseropes, xxv. ȝerderopes, xiiij. Wyndyngropes, ij. Cranelynes.

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1420.  in For. Acc. 3 Hen. VI., I. De … ij Tripgetropes ij. Trusses pro ȝerdrope.

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1487.  Naval Accts. Hen. VII. (1896), 68. Yerd ropes for the top.

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  b.  (See quot. 1867.)

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1850.  J. S. Carden, Curtail’d Mem., iii. (1912), 89. The intended Victim was on the Forecastle, the Yard Rope from the Fore Yard rove round his neck, The Yard Rope Man’d.

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1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Yard rope,… that by which a yard is hoisted for crossing, or sent down. Also, rove for execution.

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