ropemaking
noun
the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
ropemaker
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a word derived from
ropemaking.
Example Sentences
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For the poor ropemaker, however, a struggling weaver and for the two gentlemen, Sa'd and Sa'dÝ, three rich students are substituted.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The ropemaker pays him a pension, and he pays tribute to the physician; for the physician makes work for the sexton, as the ropemaker for the hangman.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
What the ropemaker told him to do wasn’t very nice, and they had a set-to.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
Publications and Marriages, 1654: John Shakespear, of Ratcliffe Highway, ropemaker, aged thirty-five, and Martha Seeley, of Wapping Wall, mayde, nineteen years.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
It grips it between its claws like a wrestler clutching his opponent, and with head and feet together rolls up its paste like a ropemaker twisting a hawser.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
