rope's end

British

noun

a short piece of rope, esp as formerly used for flogging sailors

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I select a rock, slightly bigger than my hand, and tie it to the rope’s end.

From Literature

Looping the rope’s end around the old water-butt that had been the ferret’s drum, she sprang inside, calling up to the parapet, “Haul away, Constance.”

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Matthias dangled on the rope’s end for a moment, then he started to slip slowly down.

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He stroked the rope’s end and shook it gently.

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