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Ropemaker

noun
1.
A craftsman who makes ropes.  Synonyms: rope-maker, roper.






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"Ropemaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... many rogueries practised. Among others, on the 4th of June he went "by water to Woolwich, and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford's Holland's yarne (about which we have lately had so much stir, and I have much concerned myself for our ropemaker, Mr Hughes, who represented it so bad), and we found it to be very bad, and broke sooner than upon a fair trial, five threads of that against four of Riga yarne; and also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred, covered over with new hempe, ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston



Words linked to "Ropemaker" :   artisan, journeyman, artificer, roper, craftsman, rope-maker



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