ropework
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike.
- noun A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture.
Similar words
ropemaking woolding ropewalk rope-walk working part raft-rope knotwork rope machine racking working end
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