European shortly will spin around a piece of rope (5)
I believe the answer is:
noose
'rope' is the definition.
(noose is a kind of rope)
'european shortly will spin around a piece of' is the wordplay.
'shortly' suggests the final letters.
'will' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'spin around' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (I've seen 'spinning around' mean this).
'a piece' becomes 'eso' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'of' becomes 'o''.
The last letter of 'european' is 'n'.
'eso'+'o'='esoo'
'esoo' in reverse letter order is 'oose'.
'n'+'oose'='NOOSE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for noose that I've seen before include "marriage, for a laugh" , "Cord snare" , "Hangman's knot" , "Scaffold rope" , "Loop in a lariat" .)