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Definition of Ropewalks
1. ropewalk [n] - See also: ropewalk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ropewalks
Literary usage of Ropewalks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"... at the ropewalks. A soldier of the 29th regiment named John Dudley being by,
said it was a planned thing a month before. DAVID LORING. (No 93). ..."
2. Rambles about Portsmouth: First Series : Sketches of Persons, Localities by Charles Warren Brewster (1873)
"With the four hundred per cent, increase of tonnage in the last thirty years,
there is now a less number of ropewalks in operation than there were in 1825. ..."
3. Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston by Samuel Adams Drake (1873)
"The ropewalks.—The Grays. — Conflicts between the Rope-Makers and the Regulars.
— Pearl Street House. — Spurzheim. — Washington Alls- ton. ..."
4. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"These votes first grant to the owners of the late ropewalks " a piece of marsh
land and flats at the bottom of the Common," and then proceed to direct the ..."
5. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"These votes first grant to the owners of the late ropewalks " a piece of marsh
land and flats at the bottom of the Common," and then proceed to direct the ..."
6. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860)
"These votes first grant to the owners of the late ropewalks " a piece of marsh
land and flats at the bottom of the Common," and then proceed to direct the ..."
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