A slightly heavier variation has two ropes supporting a deck, and two handrail ropes.

The heavy rope supporting the ladder rattled through the pulley, bringing up a light line-hardly more than a stout cord-and on this cord the cushions were raised.

But for the opposition, Michael Ancram, backing the same text, supported Straw like a rope supporting a hanging man.

On February 15, 1905, the Cairo swirled with intrigue when, during a labor union strike, painter J. Frank Hanby fell to his death when the ropes supporting him broke.

This means that the two parts of the rope supporting the moving block must each support half the load.

Thus, the mechanical advantage of the system can be determined by counting the number of sections of rope supporting the load.

The gibbet could be operated by cutting the rope supporting the blade or by pulling out the pin that held the rope.

The rope supporting Marcone had been secured with a hasty knot, easily undone.

Andrew hung against his tree, limp, the ropes supporting him.

The rope supporting her passed over a beam, slippery with sweat and condensation, and was secured, taut as a cable, through an iron ring in the floor.