Meaning of रस्सी in English
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
- A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
- Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
- Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
- See Chord.
- To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
- To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
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- A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
- A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
- The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
- To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
- To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
- To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
- To lasso (a steer, horse).
- To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
- To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
- A twist; a convolution.
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- The act of twining or winding round.
- To twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To change the direction of.
- To mingle; to mix.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To turn round; to revolve.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.
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