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HIGH WIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high wire mean? 

HIGH WIRE (noun)
  The noun HIGH WIRE has 1 sense:

1. a tightrope very high above the groundplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH WIRE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH WIRE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A tightrope very high above the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("high wire" is a kind of...):

tightrope (tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground)


 Context examples 


Jumping over forms, and creeping under tables, I made my way to one of the fire-places; there, kneeling by the high wire fender, I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all round her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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