cableway
ca·ble·way [ ˈkā-bəl-ˌwā]
[ˈkā-bəl-ˌwā]
: a suspended cable used as a track along which carriers can be pulled Recent Examples on the Web
//Part of which was working with the Austrian-Swiss company Doppelmayr/Garaventa to build the cutting-edge Wings of Tatev tramway, the longest reversible cableway in the world.
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Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, "How a Record-Breaking Aerial Tramway Helped Save a Centuries-Old Armenian Monastery," 6 July 2018
//However, tragedy struck in 1983 on the cable car system when seven people died after an oil drilling ship collided with the cableway.
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Suyin Haynes, Time, "The Dark History of the 'Tranquil' Island Hosting the Trump-Kim Summit," 11 June 2018
//Archaeologists describe how the ice, in its pockets, preserves not only the objects of war but also its smell, from the grease of military cableways to old sauerkraut.
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The Economist, "Trouble on the slopesWinter sports face a double threat, from climate and demographic change," 25 Jan. 2018
//Rocket refueling suits worn by propellant transfer technicians were hung up on the wall outside of the cableway tunnel that leads to Titan II missile silo.
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Laura Reston, New Republic, "Soviet Union," 6 Oct. 2017
//The cableway’s rotating cars ensure that every passenger gets equal time during the five-minute ascent to take in views in every direction: the sheer cliff face of Table Mountain, the city and Table Bay below.
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Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, "The world’s 10 best cable cars," 29 June 2017
First Known Use of cableway
1891, in the meaning defined above
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