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Definition of Cableway
1. a suspended cable [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cableway
Literary usage of Cableway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"Similarly, when one end of the cableway can be raised or lowered so that the load
may slide through gravity to the other end, the machine is termed a ..."
2. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1910)
"THE cableway AND ITS USES By Sterling H. Bunnell FOR most contractors' operations
requiring the transportation of material over moderate distances, ..."
3. Lumber, Its Manufacture and Distribution by Ralph Clement Bryant (1922)
"cableway System. A cableway system, operated on the general principles of the cable-
... A cableway system, which had a span of 576 feet, was installed to ..."
4. The Chicago Main Drainage Channel: A Description of the Machinery Used and by Charles Shattuck Hill, Engineering News Pub. Co (1896)
"The cableway has been used much of the time In cleaning off the top rock to ...
Compared with previous performances of the cableway, the summer of 1895 has ..."
5. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"Each cableway averaged 200 buckets per day of 10 lir., and a record of 330 buckets
was made by a single cableway in one day. One of these cableways with a ..."
6. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1905)
"A cableway, 892 ft. between towers, spanned th dam and the quarry. No derricks
were used on the dam for, 'by using a snubbing post and a horse, ..."
7. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1908)
"The general principle of the cableway skidder, otherwise known variously as ...
The first cableway skidding engines, for railroad logging, were mounted on ..."
8. The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material; Being a Treatise on the by George Frederick Zimmer (1922)
"The term "cableway" as well as the special application of the process is of American
... The cableway is designed to handle single loads intermittently in a ..."
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