ROPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roping mean? 

• ROPING (noun)
  The noun ROPING has 1 sense:

1. capturing cattle or horses with a lasso

  Familiarity information: ROPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capturing cattle or horses with a lasso

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("roping" is a kind of...):

labor; labour; toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roping"):

calf roping (capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet)

steer roping (capturing a steer with a lasso)

Derivation:

rope (catch with a lasso)