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funicular railway
noun
a short, very steep railway having two parallel sets of tracks, upon each of which runs a car or train raised or lowered by means of a cable that simultaneously lowers or raises the other car or train in such a way that the two are approximately counterbalanced.
Origin:
1885–90
1885–90
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Funicular railway
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| funicular railway | |
noun | |
| a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars [syn: cable railway] |
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