Blondin

Quick meaning: Blondin is a noun meaning A specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway.

Meaning

A specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway.

Example Sentences

His Irish labourers were accommodated on the north bank of the bridge when blondins were used to carry men and materials across the river.

The fish was brought up by a blondin, a cable crane that operated by hauling up and lowering down a hanging crane pulley when it was run back and forth up and down the suspended cable. […] Again the salmon was brought up from below by blondin.

While it is possible with using a blondin to set up the two concrete mixing plants with concretes of different compositions, being placed simultaneously in two distinct zones of the same lift, it is necessary in the case of the conveyor to concrete the two zones successively, which makes it necessary to have vertical shuttering which would not be required in the case of concreting by the aid of the blondin.

Word Forms

• blondins

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