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Guide rope   /gaɪd roʊp/   Listen
noun
Guide rope  n.  (Aeronautics) 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.






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"Guide rope" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the bars shooing the monkeys ahead of him, now holding to a guide rope so that he might not by any chance slip through and drop to the ring forty feet below him, and all the while waving his free ...
— The Circus Boys In Dixie Land • Edgar B. P. Darlington



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