Definition of Ropewalk

1. Noun. Workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made.

Exact synonyms: Rope Yard
Generic synonyms: Work, Workplace

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

ropelofts
ropemaker
ropemakers
ropemaking
ropeman
ropemate
ropemates
ropemen
roper
roperies
ropers
ropery
ropes
ropesman
ropesmen
ropewalk (current term)
ropewalker
ropewalkers
ropewalks
ropeway
ropeways
ropework
ropeworks
ropey
rophy
ropier
ropiest
ropily
ropiness
ropinesses

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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