| 单词 | rope-layer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrope-layer (a) With agent nouns, as rope-bearer, rope-hauler, rope-layer, rope-spinner, etc. Also ropemaker n. ΚΠ 1376 in W. Boys Hist. Sandwich (1792) 556/1 De chescun roplegher de xx lussell de canibre. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 27 Not a slop of a ropehaler they send forth to the Queenes ships, but hee is first broken to the Sea in the Herring mans Skiffe. 1640–1 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Robert Adman [of Wye] rope-layer. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6186/10 William Buckland,..Ropespinner. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6187/4 James Cleaver,..Rope-Weaver. 1801 T. S. Surr Splendid Misery I. 125 Her Ladyship is the best rope-skipper we have. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 154/2 Some of the principal rope-manufacturers of Great Britain. 1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 121 Straight to my companion went the rope-bearers. 1954 Dixon (Illinois) Evening Tel. 25 Mar. 2/4 (advt.) Public sale of contractor's equipment... Wire rope cutter; ¼ ratchet punch; [etc.]. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 24/2 The story starts in 1843 with the author's great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Francis Larter, a rope spinner. < as lemmas |
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