ROPEMAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ropemaker mean? 

• ROPEMAKER (noun)
  The noun ROPEMAKER has 1 sense:

1. a craftsman who makes ropes

  Familiarity information: ROPEMAKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROPEMAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A craftsman who makes ropes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

rope-maker; ropemaker; roper

Hypernyms ("ropemaker" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

 Context examples 

Then a man approached who heard this conversation which the youth was holding with himself, and when they had walked a little farther to where they could see the gallows, the man said to him: Look, there is the tree where seven men have married the ropemaker’s daughter, and are now learning how to fly.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)