Roper Meaning
/ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAgent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
nounA ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
Sentence Examples
He worked as an expert roper on the local cattle ranch.
A roper is a person who uses a rope to catch various animals.
The skilled roper caught the runaway steer with ease.
CEFR Practice Quiz
At the rodeo, the champion ____ threw his lasso perfectly and caught the steer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The skilled ____ demonstrated his lasso technique at the rodeo competition.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English roper, ropere; equivalent to rope + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Instead of taking to the open and falling a prey to a roper, the calf lunged sideways and went under the horse-pasture fence."
— 1910 November, George Pattullo, “Molly”, in McClure's Magazine, volume 36, page 28:
"I'm a roper — mostly tie-down, but I do some team, too."
— 2017, Patricia McLinn, Ride the River:
"After a roper flanks a calf (picks it up and lays it down on the ground oh so very gently), he/she decides to wrap one time or two times prior to the Hooey (the Hooey is the half hitch that locks your tie together)."
— 2021, Jody Westbrook Bergman, Cook Like a Tie-Down Roper: Menus and Memories:
"But Gideon Giles was no common man, although a roper."
— 1841, Thomas Miller, Gideon Giles the Roper, page 27:
"A roper's wife, for instance, was able to fool her incredibly gullible husband while having an affair with a prior literally right under the roper's nose, the guilty pair having sex while they lay together in the same bed as the sleeping roper."
— 2006, Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London, page 143:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
At the rodeo, the champion ____ threw his lasso perfectly and caught the steer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The skilled ____ demonstrated his lasso technique at the rodeo competition.