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Rope-yarn

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Rope´-yarn`
n.1.the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.


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At this time the coach was ready and the coachman impatient, and we were all preparing to get up, and the prisoners had come over with their keeper - bringing with them that curious flavour of bread-poultice, baize, rope-yarn, and hearthstone, which attends the convict presence.
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The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth.
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