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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A place where ropes are made.

Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.

[Obs.]

“Saucy merchant . . . so full of his ropery.”

Shak.

Noun.

A place where ropes are made. [Not used in the United States.]

A trick that deserves the halter.

ropery ‎(plural roperies)

Any form of language used, typically slang or slander, that can get one in trouble.
Hung on the end of a rope.
A place where ropes are made; ropewalk.