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funicular
(fjuːnɪkjʊləʳ)
singular noun
A funicular or a funicular railway is a type of railway which goes up a very steep hill or mountain. A machine at the top of the slope pulls the carriage up the rails by a steel rope.
funicular in British English
(fjuːˈnɪkjʊlə)
noun
1. Also called: funicular railway
a railway up the side of a mountain, consisting of a counterbalanced car sat either end of a cable passing round a driving wheel at the summit
adjective
2.
relating to or operated by a rope, cable, etc
3.
of or relating to a funicle
funicular in American English
(fjuˈnɪkjulər)
adjective
1.
of or like a funiculus or funiculi
2.
of, worked by, or hanging from a rope or cable
noun
3.
a mountain railway on which counterbalanced cars on parallel sets of rails are pulled up and lowered by cables
: also funicular railway Word origin
< L funiculus (see funicle) + -arImage offunicular
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