Definition of "rope-making" []

• The art or business of manufacturing ropes or cordage. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "“For I have been obliged… I would not say that I have abandoned the idea completely—indeed, I hope not—but I have put it to one side for the present, along with my rope-making machine.”"
• "At the 2002 Venice Biennale, there was an interesting art exhibit called Ashes and Snow that was held within the Arsenale in the old rope-making factory called the Corderie."
• "Then the warriors, grasping their spears, and sometimes the young women armed only with staves, drive their herds to pasture: the matrons and children, spinning or rope-making, tend the flocks, and the kraal is abandoned to the very young, the old, and the sick."