wire rope

American  

noun

1. a rope made of or containing strands of wire twisted together.

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wire rope British  

noun

1. rope made of strands of wire twisted together

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Etymology

Origin of wire rope

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

“It’s stainless-steel wire rope netting, so it’s like jumping into a cheese grater,” Mulligan said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

“Why am I making a field with steel reeds?” she asks rhetorically, referring to her many sculptures composed of waves of bent wire rope planted in concrete.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023

He said police recovered two semiautomatic firearms from the scene along with a bag filled with gasoline, wire, rope, multiple knives, tape and a Bible.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2020

He invented a process for making wire rope, but was most renowned for his suspension bridges, including masterful spans across the Niagara gorge, the Allegheny river at Pittsburgh and the Ohio river at Cincinnati.

From Economist • Jun. 29, 2017

The round ball which it bears is the mine, and the two are connected together by a wire rope.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.