ropemaking
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Limning, as painting was called, was a trade, like ropemaking or wheelwrighting.
From Time Magazine Archive
I went to the Liverpool Blind Institution at twelve years of age, and learnt to read in the characters for the blind, and was taught the trade of ropemaking.
From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances
In his inquiries into the business of ropemaking, for example, he proved by conclusive experiments that, contrary to the common opinion, twisting impairs the strength of ropes.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
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