tight-rope-walking

See also: tight-rope walking, tightrope-walking, and tightrope walking

English

Noun

tight-rope-walking (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of tightrope walking.
    • 1825 June 19, Philo-dramaticus [pseudonym], “A Letter to C[harles] Kemble, Esq., and [Robert] W[illiam] Elliston, Esq., on the Present State of the Stage”, in The Observer, London: W[illiam] I[nnell] Clement, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [2], column 5:
      The audience, who are his conjurated partizans, are in the secret; they come to witness his exhibition as they would witness the tight-rope-walking of Madame Sacchi, under the idea of its being something that is quite prodigious.
    • 1865 August 16, “Tight-Rope”, in New-York Daily Tribune, volume XXV, number 7,600, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:
      It is something to find even tight-rope-walking carried to perfection.
    • 1886 April 20, John G. Harvey, editor, The Alabama Beacon. […], volume XXX, number 19, Greensboro, Ala.: John G. Harvey, →OCLC, page [4], column 2:
      Prof. Leon [i.e., Jesse Albert St. John] gave here yesterday, an interesting and daring exhibition of his skill in tight-rope-walking.

Verb

tight-rope-walking

  1. present participle and gerund of tight-rope-walk
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