English Dictionary

rope-ripe

adj

(obsolete, of people) Deserving of being hanged. / (obsolete, of actions) Punishable by being hanged.

The rope is ripe for use.

意味（1）

(obsolete, of people) Deserving of being hanged.

Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.

意味（2）

(obsolete, of actions) Punishable by being hanged.

Therefore the reporting of our tale, may ſone appere plain if we firſt expreſſe our minde in plaine words, and not ſeeke theſe roperipe termes, which betraie rather a foole, then commende a wiſe man[…]