†(a) a place where ropes are made, a ropewalk (obsolete); (b) a rope used as a means of transport; (c) = rope railway n.

Designating a system for the transport of goods or passengers in which a load or vehicle is suspended from an overhead line.

a railway on which rope traction is employed.

transferred. A cable or system of cables on which suspended cars travel. U.S.

a railway that uses a cable to move carriages up and down a steep incline (such as a cliff or mountainside), with the ascending and descending…

a railway in which the wheels run on an elevated rail or pair of rails, the bodies of the carriages being suspended below them.

adj. or attributive.n. Of or relating to a system of telpherage; telpher line, telpher railway, a light overhead line on which the haulage is…

one along which carriages are drawn by an endless cable.

(see quot. 1887).

In French-speaking countries: a railway which operates by cable; a funicular.

A railway that uses a cable to move carriages up and down a steep incline (such as a cliff or mountainside), with the ascending and descending…

(a) = cable-railroad n.; (b) an overhead cable and apparatus for the transport of materials or passengers.

Designating a system for the transport of goods or passengers in which a load or vehicle is suspended from an overhead line.

A tightrope, a cable-way. Also figurative, a tightrope walker. Also attributive.

Chiefly in Italian and Spanish contexts: a cableway; a cable car. Cf. téléphérique, n.

An aerial ropeway in which a single loop of cable or rope is used to support and move loads. Frequently attributive.

Chiefly in French contexts: a cableway; a cable car. Cf. teleferic, n.

A cable railway; an aerial cableway.