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Funicular

noun
1.
A railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars.  Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway.
adjective
1.
Relating to or operated by a cable.



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"Funicular" Quotes from Famous Books



... and tortuous road that leads up to the portals of this huge old pile, and I couldn't help thinking how stupid I have always been in execrating the spirit of progress that conceives the funicular and rack-and-pinion railroads which serve to commercialise grandeur instead of protecting it. Half way up the hill, we paused to rest, and I quite clearly remember growling that if the confounded thing belonged ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon


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