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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A rope fastened to another rope that is lifting a load, used to guide the rope and steady the load.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Aëronautics) A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane

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  1. guy
  2. guide rope
  1. trail rope
  2. leading-truck
  1. fair-leader
  2. drag line
  1. hat-roller
  2. stay
  1. fairlead
  2. gravel-car
  1. leader-block
  2. messenger-rope
  1. rope-wheel
  2. spider-sheave

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