ropewalk
/ˈroʊpˌwɔk/
noun
- A long, narrow building or area where ropes are made by twisting fibers together.
- The ropewalk stretched for hundreds of feet to allow the rope to be twisted evenly.
- The museum's ropewalk demonstration showed how sailors' ropes were made.
- Workers walked backward along the ropewalk as they twisted the fibers.
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