Associations to the word «Ropework»
Wiktionary
ROPEWORK, noun. (nautical) The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike
ROPEWORK, noun. A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.