Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In salt-manuf., an evaporating-house.
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Examples
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Having taken it into his very silly head that he should forward the cause of freedom by burning the dockyard, he set fire to the rope-house, which was filled with hemp, pitch, and tar.
A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Thence back to the docke, and in my way saw how they are fain to take the deals of the rope-house to supply other occasions, and how sillily the country troopers look, that stand upon the passes there; and, methinks, as if they were more willing to run away than to fight, and it is said that the country soldiers did first run at Sheerenesse, but that then my Lord
Pepys' Diary 2010
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“Why,” said he, “that burning rascal set fire to the rope-house in the dockyard about the time you were born, and there the gentleman’s bones are rattling to the breeze as a warning to others.”
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
vendingmachine commented on the word rope-house
In salt manufacturing, an evaporating-house. An open-sided shed in which salt is crystallized from brine on ropes on which the brine trickles down.
February 26, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word rope-house
Are there no salt manufacturing lists on this site? Umbrage! I nominate vendingmachine to create one for us.
February 26, 2015