Definitions for ropewalk

ropewalk rope·walk

Spelling: [rohp-wawk]
IPA: /ˈroʊpˌwɔk/

Ropewalk is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in ropewalk (aekloprw).

Definitions for ropewalk

noun

  1. a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.

Origin of ropewalk

First recorded in 1665-75; rope + walk

Examples for ropewalk

I felt even more lost and friendless as I entered the long, cold arcade (known as the ropewalk) of the Albany.

There was a ropewalk here which extended from where the angle of the building faces the Amphitheatre, as far as Renshaw-street.

There was but one ropewalk, and that was on the neck, inside the gate.

A man, who worked in the ropewalk, said something to them which they did not like, and they beat him.

Again he spoke of "a fellow who couldn't go straight in a ropewalk."

The challenger rode idle and alone up and down the ropewalk.

This establishment suffered the same fate as the Warwick ropewalk during Arnold's raid in 1781.

From her ropewalk came the rope to hoist the sails made in her sail lofts.

Word Value for ropewalk
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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