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Meanings of cablecar in English

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A cabin for transportation suspended on cables.

        Usage of cablecar in English
        1
        After a few loud clicks, the cablecar stopped and the doors slid open.
        Book Three: The Final Exodus
        2
        At Third I got off and rode the cablecar to the top of Bunker Hill.
        Dreams from Bunker Hill
        3
        Two glistening Cylons stood guard before the path that led to the cablecar and the stone steps.
        Book Three: The Final Exodus
        4
        Eventually the newcomer finds out that the sound is made by cables runnin under the cablecar tracks.
        The new yorker
        5
        The accident occurred when a US military jet clipped a cablecar line at the ski resort of Cermis, close to Cavalese in the Dolomites.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Sorry, first of all, for being behind the times in my reminiscences of the Peasholm mini-cablecars last time I Northernered.
        The Guardian
        7
        We bicycled between the ranges and walked or skied up all the peaks (no cablecars or mountain railways).
        Climbing Magazine
        8
        If you look closely on the right hand side, you'll see the spinning jamjar cablecars winding up and down from the base.
        The Irish Times
        Cablecar through the time