cableway
a system for hoisting and hauling bulk materials, consisting of a cable or pair of cables suspended between two towers, on which travels a carriage from which a bucket is suspended: used in heavy construction work, in storage plants, etc.
Origin of cableway
1- Also called cable crane .
Words Nearby cableway
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use cableway in a sentence
An electric cableway of 900 ft. span capable of carrying 10 tons was used in erection.
Across from above the lock walls came two empty buckets, carried on pulleys on the cableway.
The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings HaskinThe cableway is much used in the erection of masonry piers for bridges across rivers or valleys.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald WilliamsThe cableway is so economical in its working that it has greatly advanced the process of "open-pit" mining.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald WilliamsCount Piscicelli's electric post is an adaptation of the electric cableway to the needs of parcel and letter distribution.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald Williams
British Dictionary definitions for cableway
/ (ˈkeɪbəlˌweɪ) /
a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse