guide rope

1. 1.

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

   Broaderrope

Questions about guide rope

What does guide rope mean?

guide rope means "a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane".

Is guide rope a common word?

guide rope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.