What is "high-tension"

Usage examples of "high-tension".

Like high-tension wires, except of course there were none along the Ransomville Road, electricity had not yet come to this remote part of the Chautauqua Valley.

Beyond the orphan houses the street petered out into a row of iron pylons and high-tension wires, then grass with a few straggling geese, and finally fields, horizonless fields, fields stretching out into nowhere, fields in which the liquid mud of the Morava is lost to sight.

He was supercharged with violence, like a high-tension power line, and if we cut through his insulation, either by insulting him or talking back or giving the slightest indication that we thought ourselves superior to him, he would deliver a megavolt assault that we would never forget.

With appalling accuracy the Banshees spread their hundred pound bombs, each wound with high-tension steel wire that shattered into small pieces with machine gun fury.

Upon careful inspection there seemed to be no doubt that it was some kind of spark induction device in other words, where a low-tension alternating current was transformed to a high-tension alternating current, with the spark-gap built into the secondary lead.

They were bringin in their own booze in brown bags, most of it the finest high-tension stuff there is - made the stuff you could get in the pigs downtown look like soda pop.

Its like trying to break an ordinary electric circuit by slicing through high-tension wire with garden shears.

It's like trying to break an ordinary electric circuit by slicing through high-tension wire with garden shears.

The power plant was intact, but the Yavac had destroyed the towers supporting the high-tension wires that powered the canyon's homes, farms, and packing plants.

Sparkling and spitting high-tension sparks, the plane bit deeply into the stubborn rod of energy.