rope yarn

American  

noun

1. yarn3

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rope yarn British  

noun

1. the natural or synthetic fibres out of which rope is made

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Etymology

Origin of rope yarn

First recorded in 1615–25

Example Sentences

He slashed away the rope yarn which lashed the marlinespike.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman

As an afterthought, he fastened the blanket with a piece of rope yarn, so that Jerry was as if tied in a sack.

From Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack

"It is mixed with a little coarse wool, and carded into rope yarn, the same as wool, ready to be spun."

From Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life by Munsey, Frank Andrew

Then, we looked into the store-room; where there was an oakum smell, and a nautical seasoning of dreadnought clothing, rope yarn, boat-hooks, sculls and oars, spare stretchers, rudders, pistols, cutlasses, and the like.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles

A small line formed of three fine strands, smaller than rope yarn; principally used for seizings of the block-strops, fastening the clues of sails to their bolt-ropes, and other purposes.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir