Dictionary Entry
An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “noose”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But fetch the county kerchief
And noose me in the knot,
And I will rot.
Read full poem →Out of the woods, I suppose, and uses a lasso in fighting,
Which is, I don't quite know, but a sort of noose, I imagine;
This he throws on the heads of the enemy's men in a battle,
Read full poem →He thinks her ugly as the devil.
Now, to perplex the ravell'd noose,
As each a different way pursues,
Read full poem →Now, to perplex the ravell’d noose,
As each a different way pursues,
Read full poem →On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Read full poem →On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Read full poem →On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Read full poem →On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Read full poem →And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of Light.