grip-carn.U.S. a tramcar worked by means of a grip (see 5b) on an endless cable driven by a stationary engine, a cable-car.
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1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Dec. 2/2 The appliances for attaching and detaching the cars from the cable being called the ‘grip’, and the car in which it is operated a ‘grip-car’.
1889 Advance (Chicago) 7 Mar. 188 Whistles of engines..and the gong of grip-cars.