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twopenny rope
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Noun
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twopenny
rope
(
plural
twopenny ropes
)
(
UK
,
slang
,
obsolete
)
A rope stretched out in a low
doss-house
in order to suspend a kind of
hammock
of
sacking
on which a person can
sleep
.
References
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1873
, John Camden Hotten,
The Slang Dictionary