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ˈrope-walk
[rope n.1]
A stretch of ground appropriated to the making of ropes. Also attrib.
1672Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 72 John Harrisons rope walke. 1692in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 312 The rope walke to be converted to no other use but a rope walke. 1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5488/9 A Rope-Walk, and other Freehold Lands. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 591 For the sake of peace, France will demolish the new works at Dunkirk,..and destroy the rope-walks. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 8 A rope-walk shaded with limes and oaks. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxviii, Bridgeland Street.., which then was but a row of rope-walks and sailmakers' shops. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 844/1 Ropewalk Spinning.—The sequence of operations in this ancient but still greatly used method of working is—(1) heckling the fibre; [etc.]. 1963G. Blake Gourock ii. 22 It is interesting to note that the site on which was built the original Gourock, Ropework Company's rope⁓walk in 1777 was already marked ‘Ropework’ in 1721. Ibid. 24 The original Gourock ropewalk, 200 fathoms long and slated for half its length ran down to a rocky spit. 1971Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 July 23/4 Born in an era of sailing vessels with their need for miles and miles of rope for riggings, the Ropewalk flourished in both world wars and declined after each.
transf.1851H. Melville Whale xxxi, He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. |