rope yarn

noun

rope yarn

First recorded in 1615–25

Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.

He said, 'Now you shall never make another boiler for me with rope-yarn.'

I might as well have tried to tie an elephant with a rope-yarn.

Carteret begged in vain for a rope yarn, a forge, and various things which his experience told him would be indispensable.

He was quickly, but roughly, disentangled from the intricacies of "'Possum Jim's" rope-yarn harness.

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