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trapeze
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trapeze
1. a free-swinging bar attached to two ropes, used by circus acrobats, etc.
2. a sling like a bosun's chair at one end of a line attached to the masthead of a light racing sailing boat, used in sitting out


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DIY Handbook for changing our world edited by the Trapese Collective (Pluto Press ISBN 978 0 7453 2637 5) Though the black-and-yellow cover playfully apes the old Teach Yourself language guides, what's inside is something else.
DIY Handbook for changing our world by Ransom, David / New Internationalist
But the clown, Mooky, and his straight guy are a double act in the traditional mould and link everything together - Chinese acrobats, Rumanian trapese artists and African-Caribbean limbo dancers who take a burning bar to new lows.
A real British family favourite by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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