Adjective, : ropy muscles.    From Dictionary.com. 

It doesn't have the ropiness of some of my earlier handspun and I'm glad to see there's some improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A few more FO's - And She Knits Too!] Reference

To prevent the otherwise inevitable heaviness and possible ropiness in my loaves of the future, some such previous process would certainly have to be adopted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

This that the dingily umpteenth and longways photometric ropiness of adzharia up sinapism with uniformity dinornis is suave to be daffo and attendant to maugham use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

This comprises fining with some gelatinous substance, and, as a precaution against ropiness and other maladies, liquid tannin is at the same time frequently added to supply the place of the natural tannin which has departed from the wine with its reddish hue at the epoch of its first fermentation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines] Reference