Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or business of manufacturing ropes or cordage.

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Examples

  • “For I have been obliged… I would not say that I have abandoned the idea completely—indeed, I hope not—but I have put it to one side for the present, along with my rope-making machine.”

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • “For I have been obliged… I would not say that I have abandoned the idea completely—indeed, I hope not—but I have put it to one side for the present, along with my rope-making machine.”

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • “For I have been obliged… I would not say that I have abandoned the idea completely—indeed, I hope not—but I have put it to one side for the present, along with my rope-making machine.”

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • At the 2002 Venice Biennale, there was an interesting art exhibit called Ashes and Snow that was held within the Arsenale in the old rope-making factory called the Corderie.

    Art and Arsenale 2005

  • At the 2002 Venice Biennale, there was an interesting art exhibit called Ashes and Snow that was held within the Arsenale in the old rope-making factory called the Corderie.

    Veniceblog: 2005

  • Then the warriors, grasping their spears, and sometimes the young women armed only with staves, drive their herds to pasture: the matrons and children, spinning or rope-making, tend the flocks, and the kraal is abandoned to the very young, the old, and the sick.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • It is also used for rope-making, fishing lines and nets, clotheslines, sacks, wallets, colorful hats and others.

    Chapter 7 1992

  • But I was wondering what these were made of, knowing a bit about rope-making: it's in the family as you might say. '

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Industries include brick-making, malting, and rope-making.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • These boys were apprentices to the rope-making business, and a few days before, while spinning ropeyarns, with the loose hemp wound in folds around their waists, the youngest,

    Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

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