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n. (alternative spelling of cable car English)
Usage examples of "cable-car".
Below him the city swarmed tumultuous through its grooves, the cable-cars starting and stopping with a gay jangling of bells and a strident whirring of jostled glass windows.
Clinging to the roofs of cable-cars works the devil with my circulation.
It may have been -- and probably was -- the veriest fluke, but he put the gear lever in neutral and applied the brake to bring the cable-car to rest exactly halfway in under the lip of the roof.
Even as Smith watched, Carraciola seemed to rise effortlessly three feet into the air -- a feat of levitation directly attributable to the powerful boost given him by Thomas and Christiansen -- jack-knifed forward at hip level and flattened his body on top of the cable-car roof: his legs.
All Schaffer could see was a cable-car, heavy winching machinery and heavy banks of lead-acid batteries: he was soon convinced that that was all that there was to see.
Smith opened the leading door, did his best to ignore the icy blast of wind that gusted in through the opening, and looked vertically downwards, realising that he had been over-optimistic in his assessment of the distance between cable-car and ground.
Because of the pinioning effect of Christiansen's hands on his ankles he'd been unaware, until now, how much less difficult it had become to maintain position on that ice-sheathed roof, unaware how much the pendulum swaying of the cable-car had been reduced.
Hasn't been here or even inquired about the cable-car system to my knowledge for over a century.