Brewer's: Guy-ropes

Guide, or guiding-ropes, to steady heavy goods while a-hoisting. (Spanish and Portuguese guia, from guiar, to guide.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Guyon
Guy, Earl of Warwick
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