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noun
a rope made of or containing strands of wire twisted together.
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Origin of wire rope
First recorded in 1835–45
Words nearby wire rope
wirepulling,
wirer,
wire recorder,
wire recording,
wireroom,
wire rope,
wire service,
wire side,
wiresonde,
wirespun,
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How to use wire rope in a sentence
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.
She tugged on the black rope that wrapped around his thighs and torso, her leather gloves creaking with each adjustment.
“I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.
At that point, a tall, brown-haired man with wire-rimmed glasses came over to me, sat down, and peppered me with questions.
It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
Once the rope got tangled around Squinty's foot, and he jumped over it to get free.
That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.
All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.
British Dictionary definitions for wire rope
noun
rope made of strands of wire twisted together
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