cable car
or cable-car
a vehicle, usually enclosed, used on a cable railway or tramway.
Origin of cable car
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How to use cable car in a sentence
Everyone should take the cable car at least once in their life.
They shared the cable car with an old water colorist, and two other young couples.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseA cable-car, with clanging bell, was bearing down upon it with a speed which the gripman seemed powerless to check.
Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love | Elizabeth Ryder WheatonThe cable car isn't a car at all, children, but is a hilly-cum-go, a species of rocking horse and a grown-up kiddie-kar.
Vignettes Of San Francisco | Almira BaileyThere was no gay and chattering crowd in Market Street, not even the light of a cable car flashing through the grey drizzle.
The Californians | Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Even the distant clang of a cable car out in the city will not break the spell that is on you now.
Greenwich Village | Anna Alice Chapin
British Dictionary definitions for cable car
a cabin suspended from and moved by an overhead cable in a mountain area
a cableway
a passenger car on a cable railway
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