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Definition of Ropewalk
1. Noun. Workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made.
Definition of Ropewalk
1. a. A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
Definition of Ropewalk
1. Noun. A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope. ¹
2. Noun. Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ropewalk
1. a long path where ropes are made [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ropewalk
Literary usage of Ropewalk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles about Portsmouth: First Series : Sketches of Persons, Localities by Charles Warren Brewster (1873)
"The time was, and that not very distant, when the ropewalk was the only imposing
factory building ... The first ropewalk in Portsmouth, of which we can find ..."
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Sketch of His Life by Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906)
"... THE ropewalk.1 IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row,
Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883)
"THE ropewalk IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like
the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
"THE -ropewalk. IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like
the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward dewn their ..."
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