"funicular" in the noun sense
1. cable railway, funicular, funicular railway
a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
"funicular" in the adjective sense
1. funicular
relating to or operated by a cable
"funicular railway"
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