Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A netting or fringe made of strands of manila rope or cotton cords.
- noun Decorative work imitating the twisted or spiral form of cordage.
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Examples
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A little rope-work, sail-making, and experience with storms and such things, and by the end of the voyage you could ship on any coasting schooner.
Chapter 16 2010
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It requires crawling, climbing, rope-work, technical rope-work and many other complex human motions in order to access these.
Penelope Boston says there might be life on Mars Penelope Boston 2006
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It requires crawling, climbing, rope-work, technical rope-work and many other complex human motions in order to access these.
Penelope Boston says there might be life on Mars Penelope Boston 2006
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It requires crawling, climbing, rope-work, technical rope-work and many other complex human motions in order to access these.
Penelope Boston says there might be life on Mars Penelope Boston 2006
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As the garrison had an opportunity for maintaining a fire right on the heads of their assailants, the besiegers contrived hanging roofs of strong rope-work netting, laid over with a thick covering of raw hides.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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A little rope-work, sail-making, and experience with storms and such things, and by the end of the voyage you could ship on any coasting schooner.
Chapter 16 1904
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Buck sat down, and Ward did a little more rope-work.
The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905
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They were all ornamented, some of them very elaborately, with spiral and rope-work patterns; one of them, found, not in a magazine, but in a small room near the Central Court, was particularly elaborate in its adornment, and stood almost five feet in height
The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898
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Examples are shown of geometrical designs, of floriated ornament, of which the conventional vine pattern is the most frequent, and of rope-work and other interlacing ornament.
Vanishing England 1892
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What ingenuity in the thick rope-work which is woven before the guns, leaving only a little hole through which the man laying the gun can take his aim, and which is thoroughly impervious to rifle shot!
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