Associations to the word «Ropework»
Wiktionary
ROPEWORK, noun. (nautical) The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike
ROPEWORK, noun. A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture
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