[Rope-making terms from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary]
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A one-page set of dictionary entries on rope and rope-making terms from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. Entries define terms such as flat rope, grist, haul, hawser, hawser-laid, lay, plaiting, shroud-laid rope, size-box, spole-frame and water-laid rope. It covers rope construction (yarns, strands, cable-laying direction) and ropewalk equipment, with a small engraving of a size-box.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- Collected short articles
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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