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Definition of Ropeway
1. Noun. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
Definition of Ropeway
1. Noun. A system of cables, slung from towers, from which carriers are suspended to transport materials ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ropeway
1. an aerial cable used to transport freight [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ropeway
Literary usage of Ropeway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A ropeway has been defined as that method of handling material which ... In more
modern days, an old engraving shows a single ropeway in working order in r ..."
2. The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material: Being a Treatise on the by George Frederick Zimmer (1922)
"Delivery Station of a ropeway for Ore in Northern Chile. per hour, ... This ropeway,
which is also on the single rope system, is also one of the longest of ..."
3. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1898)
"A ropeway IN ALGERIA. American mining proprietors, and after going through the
same period of failure or partial failure that all such inventions must pass ..."
4. The Mechanical Handling of Material: Being a Treatise on the Handling of by George Frederick Zimmer (1905)
"The ropeway passes obliquely over a bridge, and is supported by the trestles on
the opposite bank. The safety net for the protection of the bridge is also ..."
5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"Cableways TRANSPORTING AND CONVEYING Aerial ropeway at a Colliery. An interesting
aerial wire ropeway, recently erected at the Middleton Colliery, ..."
6. Machinery for Metalliferous Mines: A Practical Treatise for Mining Engineers by Edward Henry Davies (1894)
"Systems of ropeways—The Otto ropeway—Standards—Ropes—Carriers— Trucks—Friction
... These difficulties vanish when the aerial wire ropeway is employed; ..."
7. From Steelton to Mandalayby Pennsylvania Steel Company by Pennsylvania Steel Company (1902)
"... on a wire ropeway, so that plate-laying could be carried on the further side;
two locomotives were even transported in pieces across this rope. ..."
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