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CABLE RAILWAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cable railway mean?
• CABLE RAILWAY (noun)
The noun CABLE RAILWAY has 1 sense:
1. a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
Familiarity information: CABLE RAILWAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cable railway; funicular; funicular railway
Hypernyms ("cable railway" is a kind of...):
railroad; railroad line; railway; railway line; railway system (line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight)
Meronyms (parts of "cable railway"):
cable car; car (a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway)
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