rope yarn
Noun
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Noun
rope yarn
- The yarn or thread composing the strands of a rope.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13
- Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13
- A yarn of fibers, twisted up loosely and right-handedly.
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