gondola
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈɡɒndələ/
- Specialized
:
vagón góndola
- If he climbed the ladder to the lowest level of the funhouse, he would come out in a service room behind the walls of Hell, from which the machinery operating the gondola chain drive had been accessed and repaired before it had been carted away forever.
- gondola cars
- gondola train
- open gondolas
Examples
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Also, will putting one gondola in really make a vast difference in how much land is in public or private hands?
Blog text (8) -
The workers unloaded the gondola filled with steel beams into the warehouse.
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In that shallow depression, three gondolas still lay on the cracked concrete.
Fiction book (1992) -
You're equipment, like a shovel, a gondola car, or a hunk of wood brace.
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The lagoon doors, which in better days had swung smoothly out of the way at the approach of each gondola, were no longer motorized.
Fiction book (1992) -
We walk into the gondola, and Billy strides straight to the back end of the bar where he throws his duffle bag against the wall, climbs up on the last stool, and lights a Camel.
Fiction book (1998) -
The next morning, a wrecker and a gondola came down my road, and before noon, Amos loaded up four derelict cars, six engines, four washing machines, ten broken lawn mowers, and two and one-quarter tons of scrap iron.
Fiction book (2000) -
The gondola carried a load of gravel along the tracks to the construction site.
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As the train passed by, the gondola was filled with tons of coal for transport.
Synonyms
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2.5
A vehicle on railway tracks that carries people or goods
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3.2
A vehicle on a train that carries goods like boxes or crates
A low open train car with fixed sides and no roof for carrying loose materials like coal
Compounds
- Specialized
A low open train car with fixed sides and no roof for carrying loose materials like coal
How Covered
Surface Forms
Etymology
The railroad gondola was named after the Venetian boat because the open, low freight car looks like a small 'boat' for carrying loose goods on rails, which is why it is called a gondola.