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An accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster.
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Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
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A maker of ropes.
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One who ropes goods; a packer.
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A crafty fellow; one fit to be hanged.
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A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
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Examples of roper in a Sentence
The Roper is a magnificent stream, navigable for about 75 or 80 m.
Besides those mentioned, there are a number of smaller rivers discharging on the north coast, and on the west shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria the Roper river discharges itself into Limmen Bight.
Skirting the low shores of this gulf, all the way round its upper half to the Roper, Leichhardt crossed Arnheim Land to the Alligator river, which he descended to the western shore of the peninsula, and arrived at Port Victoria, otherwise Port Essington, after a journey of 3000 m., performed within a year and three months.
He then pushed on, through a very thick forest, with scarcely any water, till he came to the streams which supply the Roper, a river flowing into the western part of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
See Sir Roper Lethbridge, The Golden Book of India.
William Roper, husband of More's eldest daughter, mentions one of these visits, when the king after dinner walked in the garden by the space of an hour holding his arm round More's neck.
Roper afterwards congratulated his father-in-law on the distinguished honour which had been shown him.
Howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France it should not fail to go."
But it did not alter the royal policy, and in 1529, when a successor had to be Roper, Life.
His eldest daughter, Margaret (1505-1544), married to William Roper (1496-1578), an official of the court of king's bench and a member of parliament under Henry VIII., Edward VI.
The Mirror of Vertue in Worldly Greatness; or, the Life of Syr Thomas More was written by his son-in-law William Roper about the end of Mary's reign.
Roper's Life is the source of all the many subsequent biographies.
All that is material in this MS. is taken from Roper.
Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Thomae Mori (Douay, 1588; Cologne, 1612) and the Vila Thomae Mori (separately), (Gratz, 1689) translates Roper, interweaving what material he could find scattered through More's works and letters and the notices of him in the writings of his contemporaries.
But it is almost entirely borrowed from Roper and Stapleton.
The additions made have sometimes the appearance of rhetorical amplifications of Roper's simple statements.
In Mary's reign, and in the tide of Catholic reaction, Roper and Harpsfield wrote lives of him; Ellis Heywood dedicated his Il Moro (Florence, 1556) a fanciful account of More's life at Chelsea, to Cardinal Pole, and Tottell reprinted the folio of his English works.
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