steel monkey n.— «This is where not being a sissy comes in. Steel monkeys as they are affectionately called, have to walk the steel girders in order to put the steel beams in place. They walk the beams a hundred feet in the air. One false...
ramping n.— «City road crews say “vehicle ramping”—the term used to describe hard-packed snowbanks that are left on the sides of bridges, guard rails, medians and roads by snow removal crews—is uncommon in Saskatoon...
bike-whack v.— «A straight bike-whack down through steep and unforgiving terrain. We lost our only odometer, a niterider battery pack, and I broke a spoke. It was nasty stuff.….We bikewhacked again and found no bridge...
trap n.— «The Greyhound, which looks as if it sprang from the womb of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose, is 50,000 pounds of flying metal that must set itself down on the pitching deck of a ship at 120 knots and come to a complete stop in two...
bolter v.— «The Greyhound, which looks as if it sprang from the womb of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose, is 50,000 pounds of flying metal that must set itself down on the pitching deck of a ship at 120 knots and come to a complete stop in...
air bridge n.— «An “air bridge” is the term for planes that would move in swiftly and ferry people out in quick succession.» —“U.S. plans ‘air bridge’ out of Lebanon, officials say” in Washington, D.C...