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Definition of Rope yarn
1. Noun. The strands out of which ropes are made.
Definition of Rope yarn
1. Noun. yarn or thread, composing the strands of a rope ¹
2. Noun. a yarn of fibers, twisted up loosely and right-handedly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rope Yarn
Literary usage of Rope yarn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1892)
"rope yarn. WHILE gliding along on our way, I cannot well omit some account of a
poor devil we had among us, who went by the name of rope yarn, or Ropey. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Hi» inventions included machines for preparing and spinning silk waste, and
improvements in machinery for making rope yarn. The art of constructing ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"The whirl being now set in motion by turning the wheel, the skein is twisted into
a rope-yarn, the spinner walking backwards down the rope-walk, ..."
4. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"... MATS [in a Siip] broad thick Clouts of Sinnet, or Rope-yarn and Thrums beaten
flat and interwoven to fave the Yard, ££r« from galling. ..."
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