Responses such as `` rope with a loop in it '', and `` two pieces of rope '', were quite characteristic.

`` Hurry up, we're late '', he said, noticing with a chill how gray the sky was this morning, the fog like a rope along the horizon, the choppy waves sending off sheets of blue and Kool-Aid green.

In the 5th century public slaves forming a cordon with a red-stained rope herded citizens from the agora into the assembly meeting place ( Pnyx ), with a fine being imposed on those who got the red on their clothes.

Only the first 6000 to arrive were admitted and paid, with the red rope now used to keep latecomers at bay.

Also, if laced together with rope instead of wire, the rope can be very quickly destroyed by such fires, after which the abatis can be quickly pulled apart by grappling hooks thrown from a safe distance.

The reduced gate mass makes their wire bales less prone to ' gate flutter ,' a dangerous condition created by irregular impact forces generated by the climbing rope or contact with hard surfaces in a fall which momentarily opens the gate ( and both lowers the breaking strength of the carabiner when open and potentially allows the rope to escape ).

If for instance there had been a wire walker the reprise would involve two chairs with a piece of rope between and the clown trying to imitate the artiste by trying to walk between them with the resulting falls and cascades bringing laughter from the audience.

Traditionally the prod was often lashed to the stock with rope, whipcord, or other strong cording.

Crossbow bolts can be fitted with a variety of heads, some with sickle-shaped heads to cut rope or rigging ; but the most common today is a four-sided point called a quarrel.

For example, in the Americas, the Peruvian army ( Ejército ) equips some soldiers with crossbows and rope, to establish a zip-line in difficult terrain.

The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus — ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope — on a floor area, with a much greater emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the acrobatic.

In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a spliced running loop around the nose and another over the poll, used mainly for unbroken horses or for cattle.

This involves local people making up ' balls ' of chicken wire filled with old newspaper, sticks, rags, and other dry flammable material up to a diameter of 2 feet, each attached to about 3 feet of wire, chain or nonflammable rope.

So I jump on the rope with him -- I put my weight with him.

In the event of someone falling into a ravine or a similar terrain feature, with a rope or two, some carabineers, and knowledge of knots you can set up a rappel system to lower yourself down to the individual and set up a hauling system to allow another individual to pull you and the injured person out of the ravine.

In most situations forming loops and bends with conventional knots is far more practical than using rope splices, even though the latter can nearly maintain the rope's full strength.

The working load limit of a rope is generally specified with a significant safety factor, up to 15: 1 for critical applications.

* bowline — used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope

The bowline ( or ) is an ancient and simple knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope.

The structure of the bowline is identical to that of the sheet bend, except the bowline forms a loop in one rope and the sheet bend joins two ropes.

On a square-rigged ship, a bowline ( sometimes spelled as two words, bow line ) is a rope that holds the edge of a square sail towards the bow of the ship and into the wind, preventing it from being taken aback.

A mnemonic used to teach the tying of the bowline is to imagine the end of the rope as a rabbit, and where the knot will begin on the standing part, a tree trunk.

The Eskimo bowline is a knot that places a loop in the end of a rope.

Although similar in finished appearance to the double bowline, the water bowline is formed with a clove hitch as the loop in the standing part of the rope.

And at least one other source uses the name " double bowline " for a mid-line loop knot made by tying a basic bowline with a bight of rope instead of the end.

The rope is tied into the climber's harness with a figure-of-eight loop or double bowline knot.

In a typical climbing situation, one end of the rope is fixed to the harness of the climber, using either a figure of eight loop, or a bowline or double bowline knot.

The sheet bend may be tied by various methods: the basic " rabbit through the hole " method of forming a half hitch in the bight of the larger rope, by a more expedient method shown in Ashley as № 1431 ( similar to the method used by an experienced sailor or mountaineer to tie a bowline ) or by a trick method, Ashley № 2562, involving upsetting a noose knot over a short end of the " larger " rope.

The bight of rope is initially used to make a bowline in the usual way ( picture on right ).

The short splice retains more of the rope strength than any knots that join rope ends.

The diameters of all tsukeshime-daiko sizes are approximately the same, but the height of the wooden bodies increases in order to provide greater rope leverage in tightening thicker skins.

The Dutch team at the 2006 World ChampionshipsTwo teams of eight, whose total mass must not exceed a maximum weight as determined for the class, align themselves at the end of a rope approximately 10 centimetres in circumference.

* Pull a section of rope back and lay it alongside the rope, so that the rope forms a Z approximately 20 cm long.

Fossilized fragments of " probably two-ply laid rope of about 7 mm diameter " were found in one of the caves at Lascaux, dating to approximately 15, 000 BC.

Starting from approximately 2800 B. C., rope made of hemp fibres was in use in China.

It then remained on the bottom of the ocean in approximately 3 metres of water until a unnamed group removed the structure using nothing but wood and rope.

On a second attempt to find the correct area, the combination flew into thick clouds approximately northwest of Rjukan, and ice began to form on both aircraft and glider, as well as the towing rope connecting the two.

Several people can slide down the same rope simultaneously, provided that there is a gap of approximately between them, so that each one has time to get out of the way when they reach the ground.

It rises approximately 100 feet ( 30 m ) and the eastern face has several permanent anchor bolts for attaching a belay rope.

The area featured two chair lifts and a rope tow, had a total of 13 runs with a vertical drop of approximately 750 feet ( 230 m ).

Garnerin rode in a basket attached to the bottom of the parachute ; at a height of approximately he severed the rope that connected his parachute to the balloon.

The carpet permitted him to travel, flying, at high speeds and altitudes, while the belt / sash magically elongates to approximately in length ( almost 10 times its typical length ), and can serve as a weapon ( whip ), or as a climbing rope, or to capture and restrain his foes.