rope yarn

In the old days rope yarn was spun by hand.

The rope yarn feeds through holes in an iron plate.

Walker wrote that "nothing could have exceeded the way she went over it, not even straining a rope yarn".

I had him fast and triced in the blanket with a rope yarn."

The rope yarn had been parted, and Lerumie's fingers were feeling inside the blanket for him.

It was familiar with dried meats and tongues, possessing an extraordinary flavour of rope yarn.

She'd reached for a tuft of rope yarn to bind the fool's mind to whatever purpose she chose-- And then caught herself.

Wednesdays had the crew on reduced activities that is traditionally known as Rope Yarn Sunday.

And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope yarns which sailormen plait.

As an afterthought, he fastened the blanket with a piece of rope yarn, so that Jerry was as if tied in a sack.

Other inventions included machines for preparing and spinning silk waste, and improvements in machinery for making rope yarn.

Slocum himself said "I did not know the center of effort in her sails, except as it hit me in practice at sea, nor did I care a rope yarn about it.

Then, we looked into the store-room; where there was an oakum smell, and a nautical seasoning of dreadnought clothing, rope yarn, boat-hooks, sculls and oars, spare stretchers, rudders, pistols, cutlasses, and the like.

In 1878 Henry Fleuss invented the first certainly known rebreather using stored oxygen and absorption of carbon dioxide by an absorbent (here rope yarn soaked in caustic potash solution), to rescue miningworkers who were trapped by water.

The condemned was prevented from rushing by the master-at-arms with a cutlass and pushed forward by a corporal, while being beaten with rope yarns that were plaited into so-called "knittles", which looked like smaller, improvised versions of the cat o' nine tails.

The gleaming round shot-just under six and a half inches in diameter and weighing over thirty-eight pounds-went down the bore next, followed by a fat, round wad of rope yarn to keep it from rolling around inside the gun as the ship moved, and Number Four tamped everything down with another stroke of his rammer.