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单词 rope-house
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rope-housen.

Brit. /ˈrəʊphaʊs/, U.S. /ˈroʊpˌ(h)aʊs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rope n.1, house n.1
Etymology: < rope n.1 + house n.1
1. A building (usually one of exceptional length) in which ropes are made and stored. Now historical.
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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
1571 A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (1886) II. 284 He hath giuen them ground..to place a rope house ioyning to their owne house.
1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 302 (note) A rope house erected at Colmogro.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 30 June (1974) VIII. 308 They are fain to take the deals off of the rope-house to supply other occasions.
1693 London 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.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 56 Ropehouse-ground, or Walk, should be four-hundred yards long.
1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 82 The eastern rope-house of Plymouth dock-yard.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 132 A blacksmith-shop, a rope-house,..and one machine-shop.
1968 Imago Mundi 22 57 Details of commercial enterprises are not omitted—lime kilns in Temple Meads, rack closes and racks, brick kilns, quays and cranes, ropehouses, mills.
2. A salt-house in which the brine is evaporated on suspended ropes. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > place of
wich716
saltern858
salt-housec1000
wich-work1298
salt-cotec1425
wich-house1534
walling-house1556
salt-works1566
marsh-work1587
saltfata1647
salt-makinga1647
salt-pan1708
brine-seeth1748
seal1756
rope-house1850
walling shed1894
saltery1899
1850 C. Tomlinson Nat. Hist. Common Salt 150 The Maison de Cordes, or rope-house, was invented by an ingenious Savoyard, named Buttel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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