ropear

Yola

Noun

ropear

1. Alternative form of ropeare
   • VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE

     Ropear, or ropeare, which in the Glossary is a vagrant, is here a rattler.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 99