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单词 rope-yard
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rope-yardn.1

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rope n.1, yard n.2
Etymology: Apparently < rope n.1 + yard n.2, perhaps mistakenly after yard-rope n. (in different sense).Alternatively perhaps simply a misreading or typographical error for rope yarn n., although there are semantic problems with this interpretation.
Obsolete. rare.
= roband n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard
headline1294
rope-bend1294
roband1336
robbin1497
raeband1513
rope-yard1611
earing1626
leech-line1626
rope-band1769
jackstay1834
roving1837
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rabans, rope-yards; the ropes, or treble cordes whereby the sayles of a ship are tied vnto the yardes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

rope-yardn.2

Brit. /ˈrəʊpjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈroʊpˌjɑrd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rope n.1, yard n.1
Etymology: < rope n.1 + yard n.1 Compare earlier rope-house n.
A yard where ropes are made.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > rope
ropery1329
rope-house1571
rope-yard1640
yarn-crofta1661
rope-work1663
rope-ground1665
ropewalk1671
walk1747
laying house1778
1640 State Papers Domest. Charles I in D. Freist Governed by Opinion (1997) v. 216 For feare that he and the rest that belonge to Burridge house should sett the kings rope yard on fire.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Jan. (1970) II. 14 We walked to the waterside and..into the Ropeyard.
1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 420 This Article alone would yield many a tedious Holy-day to the Anchor-Smiths and the Rope-Yards.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 190 Woolers, Double, Single, Hand—used at the Rope Yard.
1810 Let. 27 Nov. in Mariner's Mirror (1982) 68 164 Mr Maudslay to..send to Deptford for the use of your ropeyard..Jack Wheels of all sizes.
1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 188 There are the vessels in which cotton is imported, with the building-slips, the rope-yards.
1981 Mariner's Mirror 67 12 The buildings of the ropeyards, where the spinning and laying houses were usually over a thousand feet in length, had important effects on the planning of these yards.
1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) i. 34 Senior officers of each yard were the master shipwright (who in practice carried some sort of pre-eminence).., and the master ropemaker, who ran the semi-independent ropeyard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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