ropemaking
noun
the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
ropemaker
-
a word derived from
ropemaking.
Example Sentences
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Her surname of 'La belle Cordière' came from her marriage with a rich merchant, Ennemond Perrin by name, who was by trade a ropemaker.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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
To gae backlins, to walk backwards, like a ropemaker.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
Pencroff, whether carpenter, ropemaker, or mason, always had a joke ready, and all shared in his good humor.
From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White
Two were sailors from ships lying in the harbour, and they, together with75 the remaining victim, a ropemaker, had been actively engaged in the affray.
From The War of Independence by John Fiske
