guide rope

Also found in: Thesaurus.

Related to guide rope: rope up, guy rope

guide rope

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

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

guide rope

1. (Mechanical Engineering) a stay or rope attached to another rope that is lifting a load, either to steady the load or guide the rope

2. (Aeronautics) another name for dragrope²

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

guide rope - a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane

rope - a strong line

Translations

guide rope

n → Schlepptau nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

PC Connolley held the woman and kept her above water - but disaster struck when the guide rope snapped.

Hero officers honoured for river rescue

"You have to do the Everest dance," Schauer says, describing the process of moving along the guide rope. "You unclip, move, reclip, move.

No need to join a crowd on top Constable: Hubris, bad preparation leading to Everest deaths?

When the choir Pastorela Chorale sang the 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo,' the lights inside the church were dimmed to give emphasis on the 'kometa' as it glided on a guide rope towards the altar passing through the 12 stars evenly hanging near the ceiling.

Jagna: Bohol town whose history is 'tied' to a 'kometa'

On the way out they found the 11th boy with Chris, who had become disorientated after losing grip of the guide rope.

Oxygen mask failed on cave boy I saved; Hero Brit diver shares danger of lad's rescue

Members of BSAC club Tyneside 114 diving the cannon and laying luminous guide rope at Gun Rocks Nic Faulks

North East's first underwater dive trail established

Right: Members of BSAC club Tyneside 114 diving the cannon and laying luminous guide rope at Gun Rocks

Dive in for glimpse into past

Narongsak said rescuers had to tighten a guide rope as part of their preparations for the second phase of the rescue on Monday.

Rescuers bring eighth person out of Thai cave on second day of rescue: witness

The artworks are in a completely pitch-black gallery space with a guide rope and tactile paving.

TOUCH WOOD: Sculptor, Victoria Claire, talks with OT about living with retinitis pigmentosa and her new exhibition where people experience her artwork through touch in a pitch-black room

She was putting up a tent when she fell down the cliff while trying to find somewhere to put her guide rope. Attendees at the Pirates versus Zombies event had paid PS65 for the two-day event billed as the "Ultimate Zombie Survival Event".

'Blood-soaked' cliff-fall victim was a fancy dress zombie

Her father is the one who makes sure she doesn't plunge to her death, night after night, by controlling the guide rope that is vital to her act - which is performed high above the ground.

Moscow Grand Circus stars continue proud tradition in Abu Dhabi

I tied a guide rope to the tree and ran it around another tree, so Lara could pull on the rope at a 90-degree angle, thus keeping her out of harm's way.