ropework
Meanings
noun
- The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike.
- A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture.
Word forms
Etymology
From rope + -work.
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