Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Steel wire such as is used for the stringing of pianos. It has great tensile strength and evenness of size and structure. Also
music-wire .
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Examples
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The hard truth torqued through Dante, ratcheting every tendon, nerve, and muscle piano-wire tight.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The hard truth torqued through Dante, ratcheting every tendon, nerve, and muscle piano-wire tight.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Beneath a patch of translucent pavement, a naked dancer writhed under shifting lights, first scalded red, then skeletal white, jerking like a marionette on piano-wire strings.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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This could have gone worse for him; at least we didn't see the bankers stuffing cash down his piano-wire panties while he danced around a pole for their whooping pleasure.
David Cameron's promise to rebuild trust in politics looks hollow after City donations 2011
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The hard truth torqued through Dante, ratcheting every tendon, nerve, and muscle piano-wire tight.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The hard truth torqued through Dante, ratcheting every tendon, nerve, and muscle piano-wire tight.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Audition (1999) piano-wire scene and Ichi the Killer (2001) torture scene
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Dimbleby requires a dedicated length of piano-wire, as an evil co-conspiritor of the Ruling Class Islington and West London Chapter
OPEN THREAD 2009
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Office Plant #1, as the creation was called, grew and shrank and blossomed and hibernated and waved its piano-wire fronds as it “fed” off e-mail traffic.
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Office Plant #1, as the creation was called, grew and shrank and blossomed and hibernated and waved its piano-wire fronds as it “fed” off e-mail traffic.
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