He learned the trade of a rope maker.

Rope makers and wire-pullers became on of the strongest trades by 1577.

First were neighborhood merchants from Germany, then rope makers, brewers and slaughterhouses.

One of Octavianus's great-grandfathers was a rope maker, another a baker.

Most of those who arrived were timber workers, bullock drivers, shopkeepers, rope makers and artisans.

Other demonstrations include crafts - blacksmith, stone masons, rope makers and carpenters.

Two Lordkin families lived among the kinless rope makers.

Mr. Cipollone, a retired wire rope maker, is seeking unspecified damages.

Also the rope makers (or 'Reeper' in Low German) went here because in the city it was hard to find enough space for their work.

His father (also named George) was a rope maker and Ord joined him in the business, continuing after his father's death in 1806.

Callias appears to have been given the teasing nickname Schoinion by his rivals, probably because his father was a rope maker.

Anthon Skanchy, Norwegian rope maker who became a building contractor in America, served five terms.

There are listings for pencil makers, crystal cutters, diamond cutters, fishing equipment manufacturers, rope makers and a cheese factory.

Thousands of the town's residents, many of them Italian and Portuguese immigrants, had once worked for the Plymouth Cordage Company, the world's largest rope maker.

Joan Waste, a St Peter's ward parishioner and a blind rope maker, was tried for heresy at what is now Derby Cathedral in 1556.

The Eighth Hundred included the son of a rope maker who was soon supervising the weaving of a portion of the reeds into ropes for the binding.

(In a job survey taken in the Village of Brooklyn in 1796, rope maker was one of the most frequently mentioned occupations, along with tavern keeper.)

There have been bakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, millers, tailors, bricklayers, glaziers, weavers, booksellers, watchmakers, brewers and rope makers.

In 1885 she married Henry Hope Shakespear (1849-1923); he traced his family to 17th-century East London rope makers and, like his wife, came from a military family.

In larger contingents, the master gunners had responsibility for the heavier artillery pieces, and were accompanied by their journeymen as well as smiths, carpenters, rope makers and carters.

By the 1790's the yards covered the waterfront all the way to Corlears Hook, attracting carpenters, smiths, shipwrights, coopers, chandlers, joiners, sail makers and rope makers.

Two years later, Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier contained a passage on "rope makers" that clearly refers to the Harveys (whose father made ropes).

The area takes its name from Peter Appleby, Christian VI's rope maker, who ran his manufactury from the site in the late 18th century, although no buildings remain from that time.

A retired chemical engineer, a graduate of Princeton, got in touch to say that his great-grandfather, Archibald Wallace, had been a rope maker in Brooklyn in the 1830's, when rope making was a significant industry.

Local industry and agriculture are represented with displays on the production of rope and hemp, particularly John Boyd Textiles and Donne & Sons who were rope makers in the town between 1797 and the 1960s.

Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker.

He was the son of a flax dealer and rope-maker who also ran a local inn.

In his early life, Prentiss was a rope-maker and served as an auctioneer.

God and the rope-maker bear me witness That I was sent for nothing but a rope!

The Cagots were restricted to the trades of carpenter, butcher, and rope-maker.

Number 1, Via Sincere Renato, opened into a dusty passage, from which you could glimpse a courtyard and a rope-maker's shop.

Literally, it means "rope-maker".

In early youth Langrez was an apprentice rope-maker, but he began his classical studies at sixteen, and was ordained on 19 December 1812.

I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan.

She asked all the neighbours if they had seen the children, but no one knew anything about them, except that the eldest had not been with the blue-eyed daughter of Jacob the rope-maker.

And he danced while he was up there, a spry jig with the rope-maker's daughter, as lively as a rooster with its neck fresh wrung, so it did your heart good to see it.

The city fortifications are still nearly intact with city walls, gates, and several towers called "Red Tower" or "Thief's Tower", "Rope-Maker's Tower", and "Raven's Tower".

In 1492 the village had: two leather works, one furrier, three blacksmith shops, two mills (flour), one tailor, two butchers, one weaver, one locksmith, one rope-maker and one stonemason.

Martin's eldest brother, William (1772-1851) was by turn a rope-maker, soldier, inventor, scientist, writer and lecturer, who attempted to develop a rival philosophy to "Newtonian" science, allowing for perpetual motion, and denying the law of gravity.

The great-grandfather of Augustus served as a military tribune during the Second Punic War, and survived the Battle of Cannae; however, when Marcus Antonius wished to throw contempt upon Augustus, he called this Gaius Octavius a freedman and a restio, or rope-maker.