throw rope

noun

A brightly colored, floating synthetic rope packed loosely into a bag that unravels smoothly when thrown to rescue someone in the water.

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Meanings

nounthrow rope (plural throw ropes)

plural throw ropes

  1. A brightly colored, floating synthetic rope packed loosely into a bag that unravels smoothly when thrown to rescue someone in the water.
  2. USA lasso.

    Elmer pulled on his pants and the boots he had outgrown, wrapped his moccosins in his other shirt, and grabbed his throw-rope off its peg by the door.

    1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Prairie Kid; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 46
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