Word Finder - gondola

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A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.

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A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.

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A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.

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A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket.

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To travel by gondola.

Dean hurried to return his skis while the others took the gondola back to the parking lot.

The gondolier stands on a poppa at the stern with his face towards the bow, and propels the gondola with a single oar.

A proposed new gondola is also due to open Christmas 2006.

The village is linked by gondola to the ski area.

Planibel apartments were very handy for the main gondola, providing everything we needed, including a fantastic deli selling local Aosta Valley produce.

The main gondola stays open in the evening to transport those wishing to have a go.

We walked down to the lift and were on the first gondola by 8am.

In the foreground is the Venetian gondola, a popular attraction that appeared on many souvenirs.

These aircraft were converted on the production line, and retained the ventral gondola.

Walkers can reach the mountains by gondola lift or rack-and-pinion railroad.

The skiing can also be accessed by a long gondola from the town of Encamp in the middle of the country.

Much of the equipment and showcases etc. were begged and borrowed from anywhere available including gondola ends from the local coop store.

Then it was time to leg it down to catch the last gondola!

Visit the history museum or take a ride on the sulfur mountain gondola.

Yet a gondola loaded with chilled, fresh tagliatelle and spaghetti is now a must-have fixture in any supermarket catering for the middle classes.

Their customers demand at least one gondola, spa and on-mountain gourmet dining venue.

While these resorts are mid-priced, Breckenridge, with its new gondola and luxury lodging off Peal 7, is slowly becoming a luxury resort.

Couples can choose to get married in the chapel, a gondola, or on the bridge overlooking the Grand Canal.

After getting off the gondola, go into the structure with the big block of stone.

And what could be more romantic than a gondola ride in Italy?

The foursome rode the gondola the short distance down from the parking area to the central village complex, with Donnie looking down, wide-eyed from the swinging car.

The best suggestion is to take the gondola from the main village.

Try white-water rafting, the hot pools of Sulfur Mountain or a gondola ride.

The Venetian, where it's possible to ride on a gondola or be part of the famous Venetian Carnival, is also popular with families.

The best way to explore Venice is on foot (for the area immediately around St. Mark's Square) and by vaporetti, but for a more expensive treat (or for the romantic), there's also travel by gondola.

The gondola or flat car corresponds to the European open wagons and is used to carry goods not liable to be injured by the weather; but in the United States the practice of covering the load with tarpaulins is unknown, and therefore the proportion of box cars is much greater than in Europe.

The principal types to be found in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe are open wagons (the lading often protected from the weather by tarpaulin sheets), mineral wagons, covered or box wagons for cotton, grain, &c., sheep and cattle trucks, &c. The principal types of American freight cars are box cars, gondola cars, coal cars, stock cars, tank cars and refrigerator cars, with, as in other countries, various special cars for special purposes.

Instead of the present boat, with its heavy black cabin and absence of colouring, the older forms had an awning of rich stuffs or gold embroideries, supported on a light arched framework open at both ends; this is the gondola still seen in Carpaccio's and Gentile Bellini's pictures (c. 150o).

The property is designed so that you can swim with dolphins in the morning, ride to lunch on a gondola, and watch the sunset while dining at a traditional luau in the evening.