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Wain rope

weɪn roʊp
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Wain rope
    a cart rope.
Usage in literature

I imagine you to be one of those persons who talk with cheerfulness of that place which oxen and wain-ropes could not drag you to behold. "Lay Morals and Other Papers" by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Grand Stand was formed of Sussex wains drawn up end to end; and the Paddock was just roped off. "Boy Woodburn" by Alfred Ollivant

I imagine you to be one of those persons who talk with cheerfulness of that place which oxen and wain-ropes could not drag you to behold. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25)" by Robert Louis Stevenson