piano wire

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Noun1.piano wire - thin steel wire of high tensile strength
wire - ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
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A laser tracker is a portable coordinate measuring machine that allows users to achieve their accuracy goals quickly and easily and can replace traditional tools such as piano wire, plumb bobs, layout machines, theodolites, optical transits, and total stations.
He's able to do smart misdirects, clever turns, and best of all, he knows how to stretch the audiences' nerves taut as piano wire and pluck away.
The climax was as tense and taut as piano wire and none the worse for leaving the Black Caps and the Blighty brigade biting their fingernails.
Using a heavier top strap and coiled piano wire springs at Elmer Keith's urging, the Blackhawk was sturdier and stronger than its Colt cousin.
Stick with the traditional silencer, or maybe some piano wire - try lobbing an axe at your quarry, perhaps a brick, a hammer or, if you're feeling more playful, a fish.
Ruger was able to keep manufacturing costs down by forming the receivers from two stamped sheet metal parts welded together, and he used coiled springs made from piano wire as opposed to the customary flat springs.
4 coffee colored piano wire is then attached to a small black barrel swivel and the remaining side of the barrel swivel is then attached to the tag end of the shock leader.
SERIES two of dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale reached its conclusion on Sunday and had me strung tighter than piano wire.
Nightmarish and nihilistic, this is as tight as piano wire and twice as deadly.
Summary: As soon as I board a plane, I become a sweat-drenched hysteric strung tighter than piano wire. And nothing can quell the terror
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