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Definition of Ropewalker
1. Noun. An acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground.
Definition of Ropewalker
1. n. A ropedancer.
Definition of Ropewalker
1. Noun. an acrobat, performing a tightrope dance; ropedancer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ropewalker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ropewalker
Literary usage of Ropewalker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Smith-McMurry Language Series by Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry (1919)
"Perhaps you saw a clown doing funny things, or a ropewalker, or a juggler.
You might begin your story in this way: I saw many interesting things at the ..."
2. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"Whatever was used or appeared at a contest — a rope, a trained bear, a performing
mule, a ropewalker, a dancer — was the property or partisan of one faction ..."
3. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"Whatever was used or appeared at a contest — a rope, a trained bear, a performing
mule, a ropewalker, a dancer — was the property or partisan of one faction ..."
4. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1906)
"... or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circus rider, or a ropewalker, or In
any exhibition of like dangerous character, or as a beggar, or mendicant, ..."
5. Elementary Composition and Rhetoric by William Edward Mead (1894)
"(5) The ropewalker at Niagara Falls. (6) Tell the story of Robinson Crusoe.
(7) Tell a similar story of some lost Arctic explorer. ..."
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