Crossword-Solution: ROPEWAY
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Mountain-to-mountain transport | 1 answer |
| Suspended ore conveyor, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Tram track | 1 answer |
| type of aerial lift | 1 answer |
| Railway | 47 answers |
| Railroad | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with ROPEWAY (5)
Probably the development of transport on the principles indicated by the evolution of the ropeway or wire-rope tramway will take place primarily in connection with mining properties, and for general transport purposes in country of a nature which renders it unsuitable for railway construction.
This, the work of Adam Wybe, a Dutch engineer, was a single ropeway in its simplest form, consisting of an endless rope passing over pulleys suspended on posts; to the rope were attached a number of small buckets, which evidently carried earth from a hill outside the city to the rampart inside the moat.
Modern ropeways worked with wire ropes date from about 1860, when a ropeway was erected in the Harz Mountains.
The ropeway is essentially an intermittent conveyor, the material being carried in buckets or skips, and practice has proved it an economical means of handling heavy material.
The prime cost of a ropeway is usually moderate, though of course it varies with the ground and other local conditions.
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2007–2015).