Definitions for rope-yarn

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rope-yarn rope yarn

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Rope-Yarn is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in rope-yarn (-aenoprry).

Definitions for rope-yarn

noun

1. See under yarn (def 3).
2. thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
3. a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.
4. the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made (rope yarn)
5. a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings:

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to spin a yarn; tell stories.

Origin of rope-yarn

First recorded in 1615-25

Examples for rope-yarn

As an afterthought, he fastened the blanket with a piece of rope yarn, so that Jerry was as if tied in a sack.

We untied the rope yarn and the paper fell upon the table; we opened it out, wondering what message could be written on it.

Carteret begged in vain for a rope yarn, a forge, and various things which his experience told him would be indispensable.

It was familiar with dried meats and tongues, possessing an extraordinary flavour of rope yarn.

To secure the falls of a tackle together by means of spun yarn, rope yarn, or any lashing wound round them.

I did not know the center of effort in her sails, except as it hit me in practice at sea, nor did I care a rope yarn about it.

If you touch a rope yarn of this ship, I shall board instantly.

These tackles I passed through a ring-bolt to ease the strain, which pulled me this way and that like a rope yarn.