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jib crane

noun

  1. a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jib crane1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

A jib crane cantilevers out through steel double doors on the second floor, to hoist furniture and art.

It's a claim that gets thrown around each Bachelorette mansion with abandon, but the specific accusations are edited out by producers who are wary of the show's illusion — that a modern princess will find her singularly devoted prince charming — being like glass slippers beneath a jib crane.

Employing multiple cameras, Morahan likes "to keep them moving. Whether it's little creeping zooms, dolly shots or jib crane shots. I always found with music videos that the more the camera moves, the more lyrical it looks."

From BBC

A kind of jib crane of great height on a movable platform was used to hoist a cage containing fifteen or twenty men on to the wall.

The type of Classification. this class is the ordinary jib crane.

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