单词 | rope-house |
释义 | rope-housen. 1. A building (usually one of exceptional length) in which ropes are made and stored. Now historical. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1571 |
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