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Roper   /rˈoʊpər/   Listen
Roper

noun
1.
A decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game).
2.
A cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses.
3.
A craftsman who makes ropes.  Synonyms: rope-maker, ropemaker.





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"Roper" Quotes from Famous Books



... circular basin, which was named Termination Lake. Retracing the creek to where the depot was situated, the party travelled across a stretch of unknown country for some two hundred miles, and striking Leichhardt's Port Essington track on Leichhardt's Roper River, his route was followed too closely for hundreds of miles until civilisation was reached. My friend Baron von Mueller accompanied this expedition as botanist, ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles


Words linked to "Roper" :   artisan, puncher, journeyman, cowpoke, rope-maker, steerer, artificer, craftsman, cattleman, cowpuncher, cowboy, cowman, cowherd, rope, cowhand, decoy, ropemaker


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