縄

Selected Words with Definitions from WWWJDIC

• 沖縄 おきなわ one of the Japanese islands, far south of Honshu (n,vs) **
• 沖縄開発庁長官 おきなわかいはつちょうちょうかん Director General of Okinawa Development Agency (n)
• 縄文 じょうもん Jomon period; straw-rope pattern (n)
• 縄張り なわばり roping off; stretching rope; demarcation; one's turf (n,vs)
• 一筋縄 ひとすじなわ (1) a (piece of) rope; (2) an ordinary method (n)
• 腰縄 こしなわ leash; rope tied round prisoner's waists (n)
• 縄跳び なわとび (1) skipping rope; jump rope; (2) skipping; rope-jumping (n)
• 火縄銃 ひなわじゅう matchlock; arquebus (n)
• 自縄自縛 じじょうじばく be caught in one's own trap (n)
• 泥縄 どろなわ braiding the rope only after the thief is caught; measure taken in haste or too late (n)