ropewalk
/rohp-wawk/US // ˈroʊpˌwɔk //UK // (ˈrəʊpˌwɔːk) //
绳索行走,绳索,绳纹,绳结
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
Examples
I felt even more lost and friendless as I entered the long, cold arcade (known as the Ropewalk) of the Albany.
From her ropewalk came the rope to hoist the sails made in her sail lofts.
This establishment suffered the same fate as the Warwick ropewalk during Arnold's raid in 1781.
There was a ropewalk here which extended from where the angle of the building faces the Amphitheatre, as far as Renshaw-street.
This property was afterwards purchased by James Forman, Junior, and the old ropewalk building removed.
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