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rope-walk

rope-walk is the alternative spelling of ropewalk.

Meaning of ropewalk

Noun

ropewalk (plural ropewalks)

  1. A place where rope is made, a rope factory.
    Synonyms:
    ropery
  2. A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope.
  3. Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails.

Forms of rope-walk

pluralrope-walks

Questions about rope-walk

What is rope-walk the alternative spelling of?
Rope-walk is the alternative spelling of ropewalk.

Words near rope-walk in the dictionary

  1. rope-house
  2. rope-houses
  3. rope-jump
  4. rope-jumps
  5. rope-ripe
  6. rope-walk
  7. rope-walks
  8. rope-way
  9. rope-ways
  10. rope-worthy
  11. ropeable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rope-walk (page history and authors); ropewalk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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