aerial lift

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(video) An aerial lift going down Mount Tsukuba in Japan.
scissors-style aerial lift

Noun

aerial lift (plural aerial lifts)

  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.
    • 2003, Beth Gruber, Snowboarding for Fun!, →ISBN:
      Riding an aerial lift is like riding in a small subway car.
    • 2011, Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, A History of Cannon Mountain: Trails, Tales and Ski Legends, →ISBN, page 2:
      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.
    • 2012, Swati Kaushal, Drop Dead, →ISBN:
      'It's a continuously circulating bicable gondola-style aerial lift,' Sahay said, reading from the notes he'd made on his laptop.
  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.
    • 1963, The American City - Volume 78, Part 2, page 80:
      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.
    • 2007, David V. MacCollum, Construction Safety Engineering Principles, →ISBN, page 111:
      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.
    • 2016, Hongwei Hsiao, Fall Prevention and Protection: Principles, Guidelines, and Practices, →ISBN:
      Aerial lifts generally include scissor lifts and boom lifts.
  3. An instance of soaring upward.
    • 1996, Coda Magazine - Issues 265-270, page 24:
      With Curtis Clark he gives the aerial lift buoyant jazz phrasing is about.
    • 1997, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2016, Klaus Benesch, François Specq, Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity, →ISBN:
      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.
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