gondola

plural gondolas · plural gondole

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.
   1. An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.

      Synonyms: cable car

   2. The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
   3. The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
   4. That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
3. USrail transportA type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.

   The railroad track paralleled the road, and along the track we saw lines of burned-out gondolas and freight cars which had been fired and destroyed during the war.

   1948, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in A Russian Journal, page 118

   Synonyms: gondola car

4. A free-standing display unit in a supermarket or other retail store, where goods are shelved or hung on pegs or hooks for sale; An end bay; A parasite display.

present singular third person gondolas · participle present gondolaing · participle past gondolaed · past gondolaed

1. To travel by gondola.