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Definition of High wire
1. Noun. A tightrope very high above the ground.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Wire
Literary usage of High wire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trench Warfare: A Manual for Officers and Men by Joseph Shuter Smith (1917)
"To be effective, high wire entanglements should prevent the enemy from crawling
through it at or near the ground level, and when possible, ..."
2. Literature Pockets: Caldecott Winners by Jo Ellen Moore, Jill Norris, Debby Reum (2001)
"The Magnificent Bellini page 44 Some of Bellini's feats on the high wire ...
Students write about an outlandish high-wire feat that they would like to see. ..."
3. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"(Note: The ordinary low and high wire entanglements are described. The only novel
features are the sloping cut of the top of the posts in the high wire ..."
4. A Text-book on Field Fortification by Gustave Joseph Fiebeger (1913)
"A high wire entanglement is usually made by driving stakes in rows or in quincunx
order about 0 feet apart so as to make a belt 18 to 30 feet wide. ..."
5. Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets by Marsden Hartley (1921)
"As I watched this ringmaster of the little traveling circus, this master mountebank
of the sturdy figure, ably poised upon his head on the high wire, ..."
6. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1906)
"Then came the horse-leaping which was such a favorite feature that not even the
miraculous performances of the King of the high wire, and the ether-dancing ..."
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