rope

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

Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.

An individual length of such material.

The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.

All at once, let’s heave on the rope!

A cohesive strand of something.

The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.

Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.

A continuous stream.

The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.

A hard line drive.

He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

To tie (something) with rope.

The robber roped the victims.

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

The cowboy roped the calf.

To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.

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

Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.

To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.

Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.

The small intestines.

the ropes of birds