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Definition of Roperies
1. ropery [n] - See also: ropery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roperies
Literary usage of Roperies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... distilleries, sugar-refineries, soap- houses, vitriol, copperas, and white
lead manufactories; salt-works, roperies, breweries, hat- manufacturere, Sec. ..."
2. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1901)
"London, Leith, Greenock, Glasgow, and Belfast also have large roperies, one of
the Belfast works (that of the Belfast Rope Work Co. ..."
3. MEMORIALS OF LIVERPOOL: HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL INCLUDING A HISTORY OF by James Allanson Picton (1873)
"As long as these roperies so continued, any improvement in the ... Elliott Street
being cut through as above stated, the roperies became valuable building ..."
4. Sunderland: A History of the Town, Port, Trade and Commerce by Taylor Potts (1892)
"From the Moor four roperies were to be seen at work, viz., ... There were twelve
or thirteen of these roperies scattered over the town and across the water, ..."
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