A rope to climb by. (Anglo-Saxon, stiʹg-raʹp, a climbing rope. The verb stiʹg-an is to climb, to mount.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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