Titan crane

English

Noun

Titan crane (plural Titan cranes)

  1. A massive crane (not the bird) with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler (not the person) and lifting crab (not the crustacean), the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used especially for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Titan crane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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