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Definition of "rope-maker" []

  • One whose occupation is the making of ropes or cordage. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "rope-maker" in a sentence
  • "I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan."
  • "Her father had a small business as a rope-maker for the shipyards."
  • "She asked all the neighbours if they had seen the children, but no one knew anything about them, except that the eldest had not been with the blue-eyed daughter of Jacob the rope-maker."