Definition of "guy-rope" [guy-rope]

• A rope used to steady a spar, purchase, etc.; a guy. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "You must forgive my ignorance, I said, stepping carefully over a guy-rope, but this camp of yourswhat exactly goes on?"
• "Dick had been as lively as any one in making tracks, for he had a horror of snakes, and as he burst from the tent his foot caught in a guy-rope and down he went with the big wachtmeister sprawling on top of him."
• "Strong quickly pitching over the side, after it, the bunchy folds of the net; when the guy-rope fastened to the bridle of the beam was secured to the bowsprit-bitts and then again to a thole-pin aft, so as to prevent its getting under the keel."