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ˈrope-house
[rope n.1]
1. A building in which ropes are made and stored.
1571A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) II. 284 He hath giuen them ground..to place a rope house ioyning to their owne house. 1667Pepys Diary 30 June, They are fain to take the deals of the rope-house to supply other occasions. 1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2846/3 For Building a New Rope-House, and some Store-Houses, at Their Majesties Yard at Portsmouth. 1777(title), Trial of John the Painter for wilfully and maliciously setting Fire to the Rope House in the King's Yard at Portsmouth. 1812Chron. in Ann. Reg. 82 The eastern rope-house of Plymouth dock-yard. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 132 A blacksmith-shop, a rope-house,..and one machine-shop.
2. A salt-house in which the brine is evaporated on suspended ropes.
a1855Tomlinson's Cycl. Usef. Arts II. 554/1 The Maison de Cordes, or rope-house, was invented by an ingenious Savoyard, named Buttel. |