wire rope
- a rope made of or containing strands of wire twisted together.
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Origin of wire rope
First recorded in 1835–45
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Is a man going to lay out dollars on dams and wire-rope slings when he knows that none of them will be any use to him?
A Damaged ReputationHarold Bindloss
Hitherto the wire-rope tramway has been usually adopted merely as presenting the lesser of two evils.
Twentieth Century InventionsGeorge Sutherland
The wire-rope tramway has hitherto been used principally in connection with mines situated in very hilly localities.
Twentieth Century InventionsGeorge Sutherland
A system of this kind can be worked electrically, the wire-rope being employed also for the conveyance of the current.
Twentieth Century InventionsGeorge Sutherland
The superiority of a line with wire-rope cover to other descriptions of cable was illustrated in 1853.
The Atlantic TelegraphWilliam Howard Russell
wire rope
- rope made of strands of wire twisted together
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