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- noun Plural form of
guyrope .
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The later item seems impossible to find in a treeless place of low hills and snow until a miner named Lawson comes up with the idea of making a tripod of oars, lashings and guyropes — a "shears" (or shear-legs) in sailor lingo — to swing Jan off to his reward.
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008
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