"high-wire-walker" meaning in English

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          "text": "A high-wire-walker appeared on our streets last Thursday afternoon and performed some wonderful feats on a small wire cable stretched across Chestnut street, from the top of Leonard Smith’s block, occupied by the Union Drug Store of Denniston, Reinardy & Co to the top of Wheeler’s three-story block over the Free Press office.",
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          "text": "Fiercely protective and lavishly generous with his family and his close circle of friends, the soft-spoken Cablevision chairman pursues his goals with a self-made man’s stubbornness, a chess master’s patience and a high-wire-walker’s tolerance for risk.",
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          "ref": "2017 February 3, Théoden Janes, “Go see the circus, one last time”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 148, number 34, Charlotte, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11C, column 2:",
          "text": "You never know if this might be the night that the high-wire-walker loses his balance and fails to recover.",
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