ropemaker
- a word derived from ropemaking.
Example Sentences
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Hazen to Crocker, a ropemaker of Newburyport, to be worked up for the schooners Polly and Wilmot, the sloop Bachelor and the sloop Peggy & Molly.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)
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
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 Coffin, Charles Carleton
To gae backlins, to walk backwards, like a ropemaker.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
—Poet, s. of a ropemaker, was b. at Saffron Walden, ed. at Camb., and became the friend of Spenser, being the Hobbinol of The Shepheard's Calendar.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
