| 单词 | rope rider |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrope rider rope rider n. Mining (originally U.S.) a person in charge of a train of cars controlled by a cable. ΚΠ 1884 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call 29 Oct. The dead were fully identified by friends and are as follows:..H. J. Sape, rope rider, married. 1903 Sci. Amer. 23 May 392/2 In soft-coal mines the man in charge of the cable train is called a rope rider. In bringing his cars out of the mine he sits upon the ring which connects the cable with the train. a1974 B. L. Coombes in B. Jones & C. Williams With Dust still in his Throat (1999) iii. 49 The engine driver had pulled them to the required place and the ten loaded trams waited, fast to the steel rope, for the other rope rider to take them back to the main engine house. 2008 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 18 May (Travel section) 1 A rope rider goes up and down the mines all day long, riding coal cars controlled by steel cables (called ropes) by a surface hoist. < as lemmas |
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