aerial lift

noun3

1. •
   A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by means of one or more cables strung between supporting towers.

   • Riding an aerial lift is like riding in a small subway car. — 2003
2. •
   A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.

   • The city's park department moved its new aerial lift into the auditorium through the stage entrance, thus providing the painter with push-button control of a safe, convenient painting platform. — 1963
3. •
   An instance of soaring upward.

   • With Curtis Clark he gives the aerial lift buoyant jazz phrasing is about. — 1996