rope yarn

See also: ropeyarn

English

rope yarn (countable and uncountable, plural rope yarns)

The yarn or thread composing the strands of a rope.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
  Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
A yarn of fibers, twisted up loosely and right-handedly.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

单词	rope yarn
释义	rope yarn See also: ropeyarn English Noun rope yarn (countable and uncountable, plural rope yarns) The yarn or thread composing the strands of a rope. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299: Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes. A yarn of fibers, twisted up loosely and right-handedly. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls. Derived terms Rope Yarn Sunday References Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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