ropeyarn (countable anduncountable,pluralrope yarns)

1. The yarn orthread composing thestrands of a rope.
   • 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:

     Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; everyropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.

2. A yarn offibers, twisted up loosely andright-handedly.
   • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braidedrope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

• Rope Yarn Sunday

• “rope yarn” inWebster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.:G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing),→OCLC.