ropework

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike.
  2. A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture.

Word forms

ropework ropeworks

Etymology

From rope + -work.

Related words

ropeworker ropeworking
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