rope's-end

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rope's-end (third-person singular simple present rope's-ends, present participle rope's-ending, simple past and past participle rope's-ended)

1. (transitive) To beat with the end of a rope.

• “rope's-end”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Pederson, deperson, deponers, personed