gripe vs rope

gripe

noun
  • Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines. 

  • A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. 

  • A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. 

  • The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. 

  • The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. 

  • An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted. 

verb
  • To suffer griping pains. 

  • To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. 

  • To annoy or bother. 

  • To complain; to whine. 

rope

noun
  • The small intestines. 

  • A cohesive strand of something. 

  • A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached. 

  • A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation. 

  • Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage. 

  • A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. 

  • A necklace of at least 1 meter in length. 

  • A hard line drive. 

  • Semen being ejaculated. 

  • Death by hanging. 

  • An individual length of such material. 

  • A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second. 

  • A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. 

  • Rohypnol. 

  • Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. 

verb
  • To commit suicide, particularly by hanging. 

  • To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). 

  • To climb by means of a rope or ropes. 

  • To tie (something) with rope. 

  • To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. 

  • My life is a mess; I might as well rope. 

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