ropemakers

Others suggested that caulkers and ropemakers involved in the shipping industry in revolution-era Boston might have been marked as political agitators, and the meetings of caulkers -- or "caucers" in the local patois -- became a kind of shorthand for political meetings in general.

Ready, Set, Caucus 2008

Weavers, nailers, ropemakers, artisans of every degree and calling, thronged forward to join the procession from every gloomy and narrow street.

Quentin Durward 2008

The sea was heaving under a thick white fog; and nothing else was moving but a few early ropemakers, who, with the yarn twisted round their bodies, looked as if, tired of their present state of existence, they were spinning themselves into cordage.

Bleak House 2007

The men were employed as shoemakers, ropemakers, blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, and stonecutters; and in building a new prison, which was pretty far advanced towards completion.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.

From London to Land's End 2003

They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.

From London to Land's End 2003

And whereas you have provided tarre, and as we suppose, some hempe ready bought, our aduise is, that in no wise you send any of them hither vnwrought, because our fraight is 4. li a tunne or little lesse which is so deare as it would not beare the charges: and therefore we haue sent you 7. ropemakers, as by the copies of their covenants here inclosed shall appeare.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.

From London to Land's End 2003

It was a safe bet, some said, that Monaghan not only knew the ropes, but the ropemakers.

The Piano Teacher Robert K. Tanenbaum 1987

He saw no inns, which seemed a bit odd, but the shops did include shipfitters, ropemakers, coopers, carpenters, sailmakers, chandlers — and a distressing number of wineshops.

The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985