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aerial lift en · NOUN

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1. A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by means of one or more cables strung between supporting towers.
   • 'It's a continuously circulating bicable gondola-style aerial lift,' Sahay said, reading from the notes he'd made on his laptop. 2012, Swati Kaushal, Drop Dead, →ISBN:
   • Riding an aerial lift is like riding in a small subway car. 2003, Beth Gruber, Snowboarding for Fun!, →ISBN:
   • Each morning, an aerial lift mechanic would ride on top of the first tramcar up the mountain, stopping at each tower to chip ice off the cable wheels. 2011, Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, A History of Cannon Mountain: Trails, Tales and Ski Legends, →ISBN, page 2:
2. A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.
   • Aerial lifts generally include scissor lifts and boom lifts. 2016, Hongwei Hsiao, Fall Prevention and Protection: Principles, Guidelines, and Practices, →ISBN:
   • The city's park department moved its new aerial lift into the auditorium through the stage entrance, thus providing the painter with push-button control of a safe, convenient painting platform. 1963, The American City - Volume 78, Part 2, page 80:
   • Any piece of equipment that raises people presents bodily hazards related to falling in the event of upset or collapse. However, this section's “Case Occurrence” is a good example of a powerline-contact hazard specific to an aerial lift, and shows the lift boom as a dormant hazard. 2007, David V. MacCollum, Construction Safety Engineering Principles, →ISBN, page 111:
3. An instance of soaring upward.
   • Then came one which I have always classed among the most exquisite of her productions, with a singular felicity of phrase and an aerial lift that bears the ear upward with the bee it traces:— The nearest dream recedes unrealized. 1997, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings, →ISBN:
   • With Curtis Clark he gives the aerial lift buoyant jazz phrasing is about. 1996, Coda Magazine - Issues 265-270, page 24:
   • Milton's blank verse is musical in polyphonic Renaissance style; Wordsworth deliberately takes the aerial lift out of the medium, and instead settles its rhythm upon walking. 2016, Klaus Benesch, François Specq, Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity, →ISBN:

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