blondinEtymologyFrom French Blondin. The noun is after the French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (1824–1897).nameA surname from French.nounA specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway.“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 th”An expert tightrope walker.“My invention has cost me some money, some anxiety, and condemned my little ones to all the miseries of poverty and banishment in the bush, whereas if I had been a successful cricketer, a good bowler, or a rifle shooter without pluck, a Blondin, or an acrobat, I and mine would have escaped these ills.”