slackline

noun

1

: a cable (as in a lumbering operation) suspended slackly between spar trees and adapted especially to yarding downhill or across steep-sided canyons or gullies compare skyline

2

: a hoist that lowers an empty bucket by gravity with a slackline and applies cable tension to lift the loaded bucket on the return

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