Stephen Reader Mar 23, 2014:

At risk of expanding in extraneous directions... Wendy, David, I'm absolutely persuaded by the refs. & only set comment at 'neutral' because I haven't any knowledge or research findings of my own to contribute.
Jon., my argument re. (un)familiarity of Eng. suggested terms to non-cognoscenti is pro, not con: because the same specialisation applies to the German, I suspect; and I'd trust a wider readership's curiosity/interest suffices to look it up. Far less 'hairy' than, say, media-art-critic specialised lingo cos that tends to be a kind of red-herring specialisation (not of field or of need to have mots justes, but of language writhing under peer, 'status' pressure, and loss of readability. That dsn' apply to the case in hand.)

David Moore (X) Mar 23, 2014:

@Philgoddard: I have a suspicion that "Ropeyard" may be a term used locally to you - it's not included in my1999 M-W, and it's not in the Chambers 21st century English either.

Find "rope walk" (not hyphenated) in both.