What is "cableway"

Usage examples of "cableway".

We lost several hundred meters of altitude on the cableway, and we will have to make it up now.

Lun and Phari ridges both run south, the gap between them widening to unbridgeable distances south of the cableway we have just crossed.

Aenea once told me that there used to be fixed carbon-carbon lines running the length of the slideway, and the sledders had clipped on to them much as we would a cableway or rappel line, using a special low-friction clip ring similar to the cable pulley to keep from losing speed.

It is hard enough these days keeping the cableway clear: the fixed lines of the slideway had been unmanageable.

The final three cableway flights are anticlimax, noted only for the beauty of the moonlight on the peaks and ridges around us, and for the difficulty I have in closing my frozen fingers on the D-ring brakes.

Now I watch as the two women -- my young Aenea and the ancient form in the palanquin -- chat and laugh easily as both parties wait to cross the cableway across the Langma Abyss.

I cannot imagine being on the cableway this night, but rumor has it that several of the more adventurous guests are traveling that way.

Great Peak of the Middle Kingdom can be reached by cableway only in the spring months because of the high tide of the poisonous clouds.

At the Phari Ridge cableway juncture, the three shift down -- friction on the cable would be a problem otherwise.

By some alchemy of nature, at which I could only guess, it was on the track by which the North exercised its spell, a cableway for the magnetism of that cruel frozen Uttermost, which man might penetrate but could never subdue or understand.

Days slipped away watching sleet slash past my window, the prayer banners bent almost horizontal in the wind, the wire of the cableway bouncing.

Some kind of a sling was pulled back and forth on this aerial cableway, he believed.

More electric bulbs hung out on a cableway system used to lift logs out of the storage yard and drop them on the log dogs in the bull chain that fed the sawing carriages.

Brim immediately hauled the little starship around on a low-altitude trajectory perpendicular to the cableway, watching the lorry speed away in the distance.

Switch targeting immediately to the buried cableway five hundred irals in front of the bridge.