ropewalkn.

1671 R. Gridlie Deed 10 Nov. in Rec. Commissioners Boston Rep. (1881) VII. 72 [I] haue layd out of my feild a highway of 12 foote wide from the fort lane to John Harrisons rope walke.

1692 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 312 The rope walke to be converted to no other use but a rope walke.

1716 London Gaz. No. 5488/9 A Rope-Walk, and other Freehold Lands.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 591 For the sake of peace, France will demolish the new works at Dunkirk,..and destroy the rope-walks.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 11 A rope-walk shaded with limes and oaks.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 153 He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxviii Bridgeland Street.., which then was but a row of rope-walks and sailmakers' shops.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 844/1 Ropewalk Spinning.—The sequence of operations in this ancient but still greatly used method of working is—(1) heckling the fibre; [etc.].

1963 G. Blake Gourock ii. 22 It is interesting to note that the site on which was built the original Gourock, Ropework Company's rope~walk in 1777 was already marked ‘Ropework’ in 1721.

1963 G. Blake Gourock ii. 24 The original Gourock ropewalk, 200 fathoms long and slated for half its length ran down to a rocky spit.

1971 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 July 23/4 Born in an era of sailing vessels with their need for miles and miles of rope for riggings, the Ropewalk flourished in both world wars and declined after each.

2002 Hist. Scotl. Mar.–Apr. 38/3 In the mid-nineteenth century Pittenweem fishermen utilised part of the straight and carefully levelled waggonway route as a rope-walk.