Crossword clues for gondola
gondola
- Ski slope sight
- Balloonist's basket
- Venice tour ride
- Venice glider
- Venice boat
- Venetian vessel
- Ski resort transport
- Ski resort sight
- Grand Canal traveler
- Grand Canal sight
- Vessel through Venice
- Vessel of Venice
- Venice vessel
- Venice vehicle
- Venice taxi
- Venice craft
- Venetian vehicle
- Venetian canal boat
- Suspended ski lift cabin
- Ski lift cabin
- Sight from the Bridge of Sighs
- Poling place?
- Part of a cable network?
- It's pole-propelled
- Canal conveyance
- Cabin suspended from an airship
- Bridge of Sighs sight
- Boat on which you might hear "O Sole Mio"
- Balloon ride basket
- Lovers' conveyance
- Balloon attachment
- Chairlift alternative
- Romantic ride for some honeymooners
- Venetian transport
- See 50-Across
- Car suspended from an airship and carrying personnel and cargo and power plant
- Traditionally used on canals of Venice
- Long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling
- A low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof
- Balloon cabin
- Venetian taxi?
- Venetian boat
- Compartment suspended from an airship
- Canal boat beginning to drift in lagoon aimlessly
- Supermarket display unit
- Perform in a long kind of boat
- Party in a long foreign craft
- Boat almost left with unstable load
- Indian state holds new star losing head in cabin
- Day in lagoon, floating around in this?
- Travelling on a gold canal boat
- Transport moved along accepting fare
- Skier's transport
- Canal boat
- Way up the mountain
- Venice sight
- Canal transport
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gondola \Gon"do*la\, n. [It., dim. of gonda a gondola; cf. LL. gandeia a kind of boat, Gr. ? a drinking vessel; said to be a Persian word; cf. F. gondole gondola, cup.]
A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
A flat-bottomed boat for freight. [U. S.]
A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads. [U. S.]
(A["e]ronautics) An elongated car under a dirigible.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Italian (Venetian) gondola, earlier in English as goundel, from Old Italian gondula, of unknown origin; according to Barnhart, perhaps a diminutive of gonda, name of a kind of boat. Meaning "cabin of an airship" is 1896, though it was used hypothetically in 1881 in a prediction piece titled "300 Years Hence":You step into an aerial gondola ... and are at once borne upwards.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice. 2 A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo. 3 # An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car. 4 # The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc. 5 # The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings. 6 # That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span. 7 (context rail transport English) (qualifier: US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel. 8 A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket.
WordNet
n. a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof [syn: gondola car]
long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice
car suspended from an airship and carrying personnel and cargo and power plant [syn: car]
Wikipedia
The gondola (; ) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. The rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, is used in a sculling manner, also acting as the rudder. For centuries the gondola was the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. It is propelled by a gondolier. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in the city, serving as traghetti ( ferries) over the Grand Canal. They are also used in special regattas (rowing races) held amongst gondoliers. Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates.
In US railroad terminology, a gondola is an open-top type of rolling stock that is used for carrying loose bulk materials. Because of its low side walls, gondolas are used to carry either very dense material, such as steel plates or coils, or bulky items such as prefabricated pieces of rail track.
__NOTOC__ A gondola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat, best known today for transporting tourists.
Gondola may also refer to:
Gondola is the general term for the usually-armored ventral casemate-style positions used on many World War II-era military bomber aircraft, especially on German designs, where they were usually known as Bodenlafette, often shortened to Bola. Gondolas were either used to house a gunner or a bombardier.
A gondola is a freestanding fixture used by retailers to display merchandise. Gondolas typically consist of a flat base and a vertical component featuring notches, pegboards, or slatwalls. The vertical piece can be fitted with shelves, hooks, or other displays. Gondolas placed end-to-end can form rows of shelving while stand-alone gondolas tend to be used for special themed displays. A gondola placed perpendicular to the end of a row of other gondolas can be used as an endcap. In Europe gondola normally refers to double sided shop shelving.
Gondola Magazine is a monthly publication from Retail Today S.A./N.V. located in Zaventem, Belgium - Europe. The magazine publishes news, opinions and in depth reports on the retail in Belgium.
Usage examples of "gondola".
Contarini dismissed his gondola at the house of the Agnus Dei, and was admitted by the trusted servant who had once taken a message to Zorzi.
The light aluminium gondolas would have too bad a time in winds of this strength, particularly over the last great swoop of cable that brought them a good quarter of a mile over the exposed shoulder beneath the plateau.
Eugenio had been on the platform, in the respectful rear, and the gondola from the palace, under his direction, bestirred itself, with its attaching mixture of alacrity and dignity, on their coming out of the station together.
As I was going Laura asked me to take her back in my gondola, and as we had to pass by the house in which she lived she begged me to come in for a moment, and I could not hurt her feelings by refusing.
The latter rushed to the edge of the water, and by the time the Bucentaur had reached the middle of the port, the stream was black with the gondolas that followed in her train.
The list was now proclaimed to be full, and the gondolas were towed off, as before, towards the starting point, leaving the place beneath the stern of the Bucentaur, vacant.
When the three gondolas reached the side of the Bucentaur, the fisherman hung back, as if he distrusted his right to intrude himself into the presence of the senate.
He did not stay long with Busby but was transferred to a company of gondola infantry operating between CuiCui and New London.
My grandmother, Marzia, whose pet I was, came to me, bathed my face with cold water, and, unknown to everyone in the house, took me with her in a gondola as far as Muran, a thickly-populated island only half a league distant from Venice.
Worn out with happiness and enjoyment, we were going to sleep, when the hostess came to tell us that the gondola was waiting for us.
As soon as you had landed, the gondola came back, and I went to a place well known to our friend from which, without being seen, I could follow all your movements and hear everything you said.
The two ancient ladies, a Russian princess and the heiress to a rubber fortune, clients of the palazzo, have exited the elevator with them and wandered confusedly off into the night, somewhat shackled by their drawers, and now two soft splashes are heard at the far end of the Sotoportego del Capello where the gondolas dock at night.
Quattro di loro tenevansi in agguato in una gondola ben pagata, con istruzione segreta, di sbarazzarsi anche del gondoliere a cose finite per non avere indiscreti testimoni, che potessero deporre contro di loro.
After that truly dramatic scene, during which I could guess that the denouement of the play was near at hand, I went to my charming countess, taking care to change my gondola three times--a necessary precaution to baffle spies.
I got up early one morning, and walked to the end of the canale regio, intending to engage a gondola to take me as far as Mestra, where I could take post horses, reach Treviso in less than two hours, pledge my diamond ring, and return to Venice the same evening.