Gondola
WordNet
noun
(1) The compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
(2) Long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice
(3) A low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof
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Etymology
, which likely derives from the Medieval Greek language
Noun
- A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
- A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo
- An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
- The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
- The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
- That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
- A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.