"blondin" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From French blondin. Named after the French tightrope walker and acrobat Charles Blondin (1824–1897).",
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          "ref": "1955, Fifth International Congress on Large Dams, Paris: Éditions Science et Industrie, →OCLC, page 233:",
          "text": "While it is possible with using a blondin to set up the two concrete mixing plants with concretes of different compositions, being placed simultaneously in two distinct zones of the same lift, it is necessary in the case of the conveyor to concrete the two zones successively, which makes it necessary to have vertical shuttering which would not be required in the case of concreting by the aid of the blondin.",
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          "ref": "1982, “Correspondence”, in Heritage, number 2, Salisbury: History Society of Zimbabwe, →OCLC, page 58:",
          "text": "His Irish labourers were accommodated on the north bank of the bridge when blondins were used to carry men and materials across the river.",
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          "ref": "2021, Mike Smylie, “North Coast, East Coast, and Home”, in Voices from the Shoreline: The Ancient & Ingenious Traditions of Coastal Fishing, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: The History Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The fish was brought up by a blondin, a cable crane that operated by hauling up and lowering down a hanging crane pulley when it was run back and forth up and down the suspended cable. […] Again the salmon was brought up from below by blondin.",
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        "A specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway."
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          "vertically",
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Charles Blondin",
        "Dinorwic quarry"
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          "text": "The fish was brought up by a blondin, a cable crane that operated by hauling up and lowering down a hanging crane pulley when it was run back and forth up and down the suspended cable. […] Again the salmon was brought up from below by blondin.",
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