rope-maker

I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan.

Chapter 15 2010

Her father had a small business as a rope-maker for the shipyards.

Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

She asked all the neighbours if they had seen the children, but no one knew anything about them, except that the eldest had not been with the blue-eyed daughter of Jacob the rope-maker.

The Grey Fairy Book 2003

It grips it between its claws like a wrestler clutching his opponent, and with head and feet together rolls up its paste like a rope-maker twisting a hawser.

Peace 2000

Lieutenant-Governor relative to the provoking conduct of the rope-maker which brought on the affray; and thus this affair became the occasion of political consultation, which tended to intensify the animosity between the parties.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

On their way they saw a rope-maker, Lucas by name, who by his condition showed his great suffering from poverty.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Antony upbraidingly tells him that his great-grandfather was a freedman of the territory of Thurium [107], and a rope-maker, and his grandfather

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

As has been said, Lucas was very poor and was a rope-maker.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Antony upbraidingly tells him that his great-grandfather was a freedman of the territory of Thurium [107], and a rope-maker, and his grandfather

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The spider spins and twists its slender threads just as a rope-maker twists his ropes, only using its feet for hands -- for each fine thread in the web, which you could break with one touch of your finger, is made up of many finer ones, and thus rendered strong.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham