ground wire

noun

, Electricity.

1. a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ground wire¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Wicks had merely brought a key, a battery and a ground wire with him and he had cut in on a telephone line.

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Exhaustion, or an approach to it, discouragement from lack of appreciation, are like a ground wire for loss of power.

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Something was wrong with the machinery, probably a ground wire, broken by the shock.

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Then, to the ends of the copper wire of the main coil fasten two wires,—one for the line, the other for the "ground-wire."

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I've been thinking over that wireless proposition of yours, and I've got a hunch that your ground-wire isn't anchored right.

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