crack-rope

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Frequency: 3.90 in modern English

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"Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell. Carisophus. Handsomely, thou crack-rope?"
"Then let him be led through every ſtreete in yᵉ towne, / That every crackrope, may throw rottē egs at yᵉ clown."
"Hark ye, ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief!"

From crack + rope.

crack-ropes (plural) crackrope (alternative)

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