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ˈrope-ˌmaker
[rope n.1 Cf. Du. reep-maker.]
a. One who makes ropes; a roper.
1388Wyclif Acts xviii. 3 He dwellide with hem, and wrouȝte; and thei weren of roopmakeris craft. a1490Botoner Itin. (Nasmith, 1778) 218 Circumferentia marisci xii brachia, ut relatum mihi per unum rope-maker. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Nycke crokence the rope maker, And steuen mesyll-mouthe muskyll taker. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 259 Now sir this Ropemaker hunteth mee heere with his halters. 1614T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 31 Houses and worke-yards erected for Coopers, and Rope-makers. 1622Peacham Compl. Gent. i. (1634) 15 A Gardiner, Ropemaker, or Aquavitæ-seller. 1710Addison Tatler No. 116 ⁋3 They begged Leave to read a Petition of the Rope-Makers. 1769[see roper 1]. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 143/2 The men were employed as shoemakers, rope-makers,..and stonecutters. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 46 A representation is extant of a rope-maker at work with his assistants.
b. rope-maker's eye: a special eye made on a rope.
1883Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships R. Navy (Admiralty) (1886) 127 A Rope-Maker's Eye is generally made in the end of a jibstay when fitted with a slip at the jib-boom end, and has a thimble in it to receive the slip. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 874/1 Ropemakers' Eye..is formed by taking out of a rope one strand longer by 6 in. or a foot than the required eye, [etc.]. |