blondin
blondin noun: a specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway.
Noun (1)
blondin (plural blondins)
- A specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway.
- 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...1955, Fifth International Congress on Large Dams, Paris: Éditions Science et Industrie, →OCLC, page 233
- His Irish labourers were accommodated on the north bank of the bridge when blondins were used to carry men and materials across the river.1982, “Correspondence”, in Heritage, number 2, Salisbury: History Society of Zimbabwe, →OCLC, page 58
Proper noun capitalized: Blondin
Blondin (plural Blondins)
- A surname from French.
Noun (2) capitalized: Blondin
Blondin (plural Blondins)
- An expert tightrope walker.
- My invention has cost me some money, some anxiety, and condemned my little ones to all the miseries of poverty and banishment in the bush, whereas if I had been a successful cricketer, a good bowler, or a rifle shooter without pluck, a Blondin, or an acrobat, I and mine would have escaped these...1899 November 1, R[ichard] B[owyer] Smith, quotee, “Wheatgrowing in South Australia”, in A[lexander] J[enyns] Boyd, editor, The Queensland Agricultural Journal, […], volume V, Brisbane, Qld.: Edmund...
- A step or two upwards, then one to the right, and my exploring hand was able to touch a small, sloping, scree-covered ledge. This was covered by a film of ice, which I cleared as well as I could with one hand while supporting myself with the other. Having at last decided that a step was...1938, Frank S[ydney] Smythe, “The Mana Peak: The Reconnaissance”, in The Valley of Flowers, uniform edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, published 1947, →OCLC, pages 220–221
- Alternative letter-case form of blondin.
- Incised with painstaking delicacy and strength of vision into the single slab are four scenes: quarry rock-men in a pit with a Blondin (a carrying-cradle running on wire cables) above them; […]1997, Jim Perrin, “Heartland”, in Visions of Snowdonia: Landscape and Legend, London: BBC Books, →ISBN, page 130
- Thousands and thousands of steel-mesh bags were filled with boulders, swung into place by a Blondin and dumped one by one into the water until the channel was blocked.2001, Margaret Aitken, chapter 4, in In My Small Corner: Memories of an Orkney Childhood, Dalkeith, Midlothian: Scottish Cultural Press, →ISBN, page 38
Forms of blondin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blondins |
| alternative form | Blondin |
| plural | Blondins |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Blondins |
Origin of blondin
From French blondin. Named after the French tightrope walker and acrobat Charles Blondin (1824–1897).
From French Blondin. The noun is after the French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (1824–1897).
Questions about blondin
- What does blondin mean?
- Blondin means a specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway.
- What part of speech is blondin?
- Blondin can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of blondin?
- The plural of blondin is blondins.
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