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US
/ˈhɛmpən/
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ADJECTIVE
- having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
How To Use hempen In A Sentence
- I will most certainly doll myself up in my best pleather pants and hempen baja (and if it's wet wintery day, my lush faux-fur-lined galoshes) to celebrate. Warren Holstein: Che Gueverette: Rodizio Slayer
- In the meanwhile, I had sent two men down to the wreckage of the masts to cut away a couple of the hempen shrouds and bring them to the camp, and they, appearing about this time, I set to work to unlay the shrouds, so that they might get out the fine white yarns which lay beneath the outer covering of tar and blacking. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
- He must be a bit of an embroiderer, to work fanciful collars of hempen lace about the shrouds; he must be something of a weaver, to weave mats of rope-yarns for lashings to the boats; he must have a touch of millinery, so as to tie graceful bows and knots, such as Matthew Walker's roses, and Turk's heads; he must be a bit of a musician, in order to sing out at the halyards; he must be a sort of jeweler, to set dead-eyes in the standing rigging; he must be a carpenter, to enable him to make a jurymast out of Redburn. His First Voyage
- I know, I know, slippery slopes and hempen ropes and all that. Archive 2009-03-01
- _Linsey_, a coarse cloth, was made of linen and wool, or occasionally of cotton and wool; _kersey_, a knit woolen cloth, usually coarse and ribbed, manufactured in England as early as the thirteenth century, was especially for hose; _lockram_ was a sort of a coarse linen or hempen cloth, and _penniston_, a coarse woolen frieze. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
- He had a stout length of hempen rope coiled about one shoulder, and two large packs and my satchel were at his feet.
- Pots, pans, and other household goods dangled from hempen and wire leaders like misshapen fruit. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
- For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. Robbie Gennet: On Role Models and their Bongs
- Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet. The Second part of King Henry the Sixth
- Our only weapon is a simple sling with a hempen cord. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Where Is the Bird Of Fire? - Thomas Burnett Swann