ropewalk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ropewalk
Example Sentences
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Prince Charles must have blanched, however, when commanded to negotiate a 20-ft. high tree-to-tree ropewalk.
From Time Magazine Archive
We stood in the shadows of a ropewalk and observed the men dragging their cranked engines up and down the long corridor, twisting fibers into cord.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
One day an errand took him to a long building called a ropewalk.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
No wonder that it made an inexperienced boy want to go to sea, and especially such boys as led an uneventful life in the ropewalk or in the candle shop!
From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop
It was arranged as formerly that Roswitha should come to meet her at the end of the ropewalk, or near the churchyard, but they missed each other oftener than before.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
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