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Piano wire   /piˈænoʊ wˈaɪər/   Listen
Piano wire

noun
1.
Thin steel wire of high tensile strength.





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"Piano wire" Quotes from Famous Books



... sections were easily laid on 'the "horses" and then came the bolts and the bracing with piano wire. When brought together the fifty-four foot long skeleton was in shape much like a cigar. The main frame was six feet high, tapering to five feet at each end. In depth the dimensions were the same. The engine rested on the ...
— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler
... ideas of what a kite should be, resembling in its simplest form a mere box, minus the back and front. Nevertheless, these kites, in their present form, have carried instruments to heights of upwards of two miles, the restraining line being fine steel piano wire. ...
— The Dominion of the Air • J. M. Bacon


Words linked to "Piano wire" :   wire


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