manila rope

It was once used mainly to make manila rope, but this is now of minor importance.

Sailors were manning her rails, heavy manila ropes in their hands.

Gasping painfully, his neck raw from the manila rope, the man drank.

Quickly I scan the two-thirds-inch manila rope in the aft barrel.

My tools were a hammer, a handsaw, a try square, a tape measure, a level and a length of Manila rope.

It was a coil of manila rope.

He glanced at the sturdy branch above his head from which the sheave block and manila rope hung.

Amongst the other equipment around the fire, Mohammed found a thick coil of one-inch manila rope.

Manila ropes shrink when they become wet.

The thug reinforced the belt which held Joe's hands with stout Manila rope.

The manila ropes came snaking aboard the Caine.

Manila rope is a type of rope made from manila hemp.

Above us the store held sofas and china; screws, turnbuckles, manila rope and fishing gear.

This manila rope is usually made in Buxar Jail in India.

And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope yarns which sailormen plait.

Manila rope is preferred.

He walked around the ship with Willie, kicking the manila ropes that tied the Caine to the next destroyers.

At the gangway he found the duty petty officer, Meatball, in dirty wrinkled whites, asleep on a coil of manila rope.

At the outer stockade he paused to look and listen, then flicked the length of manila rope over the barrier of sharpened poles.

USES Manila ropes are used in hanging convicts sentenced to death in India.

The pilot, in the meantime, had stepped to the rear end of the cabin, where, from a box of life-preservers he took a piece of Manila rope.

Manila rope is very durable, flexible and resistant to salt water damage, allowing its use in rope, hawsers, ship's lines and fishing nets.

His family owned a wire and manila rope manufacturing business in New York, and he was a member of the Meadowbrook Polo Club.

A major disadvantage in this shrinkage is that many knots made with manila rope became harder and more difficult to untie when wet, thus becoming subject of increased stress.

He has already wound the manila rope around the samson post, putting a drag on the line which immediately begins to pay out and is soon screaming through the bow chocks.