Definitions

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  • noun A maker of ropes.

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  • noun a craftsman who makes ropes

Etymologies

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rope +‎ maker

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Examples

  • John Rice, one of the originals, had the build for it, but he was the ropemaker and therefore unavailable.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • John Rice, one of the originals, had the build for it, but he was the ropemaker and therefore unavailable.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

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

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Shakespear, son of John of Shadwell, ropemaker, was apprenticed to John

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • Victor, the carpenter, ropemaker, and general roustabout had performed his part.

    Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877

  • Henry Martyn had written that the only Christian in the city who understood his evangelical sermon was a ropemaker just arrived from

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • Two were sailors from ships lying in the harbour, and they, together with the remaining victim, a ropemaker, had been actively engaged in the affray.

    The War of Independence John Fiske 1871

  • "The wind can never have overturned this heavy mass of limestone," said a ropemaker: "And see how far it stands from the broken ground."

    The Emperor — Volume 10 Georg Ebers 1867

  • "The wind can never have overturned this heavy mass of limestone," said a ropemaker: "And see how far it stands from the broken ground."

    The Emperor — Volume 10 Georg Ebers 1867

  • "The wind can never have overturned this heavy mass of limestone," said a ropemaker: "And see how far it stands from the broken ground."

    The Emperor — Volume 10 Georg Ebers 1867

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