ˈrope-ˌmaker
[rope n.1 Cf. Du. reep-maker.]
a. One who makes ropes; a roper.
| 1388 Wyclif Acts xviii. 3 He dwellide with hem, and wrouȝte; and thei weren of roopmakeris craft. a 1490 Botoner Itin. (Nasmith, 1778) 218 Circumferentia marisci xii brachia, ut relatum mihi per unum rope-maker. c 1515 Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Nycke crokence the rope maker, And steuen mesyll-mouthe muskyll taker. 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 259 Now sir this Ropemaker hunteth mee heere with his halters. 1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 31 Houses and worke-yards erected for Coopers, and Rope-makers. 1622 Peacham Compl. Gent. i. (1634) 15 A Gardiner, Ropemaker, or Aquavitæ-seller. 1710 Addison Tatler No. 116 ¶3 They begged Leave to read a Petition of the Rope-Makers. 1769 [see roper 1]. 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 143/2 The men were employed as shoemakers, rope-makers,..and stonecutters. 1872 Yeats 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.
| 1883 Man. 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. 1911 Encycl. 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.]. |