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- noun Alternative spelling of
ropewalk .
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Examples
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Everything from a small lighthouse to a segment of what was once a building several hundred feet long housing a rope-walk dot the 19-acre attraction.
Mystic, Conn. 2010
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He advanced some fifty or sixty yards along the paved footway; the outlying suburbs of York on one side of him, a rope-walk and some patches of kitchen garden occupying a vacant strip of ground on the other.
No Name 2003
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Our new supply of rope was made of aloe-fibre, barely twisted in one thin strand, and at every camp we had to set up a rope-walk to make ropes that would not break.
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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A rope-walk had been constructed and the men were twisting cables of tough fiber.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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Its beautiful avenue became a rope-walk, and the site of its park is covered with buildings.
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The only tools which the spider uses for his rope-walk and in his loom, are his own claws, which are furnished with comb-like fingers, and an extra claw, for winding up the thread into a ball.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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On the top of the bank, and on a level with the railroads, is a piece of land not much longer or wider than a rope-walk, and on this only available scrap the Railroad Company have built a few temporary houses for their workmen.
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No one, however, would be aware of the fact if not informed of it; for the building has more the appearance of having been intended for a rope-walk than for the assemblage of _savants_ who were to discuss and arrange matters of state and public interest.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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We sailed away down the Gulf, through the Strait of Honduras and into the Caribbean Sea, with quiet weather, so that the Japanese could rope-walk in the rigging and tumble peaceable about the deck.
The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton
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The principal feature is the rope-walk, which is 1640 feet long, and worked by steam-power.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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