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Definition of "cableway" [cableway]

  • A suspended cable used as a track typically for a cable car. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cableway" in a sentence
  • "The cableway is the world's longest at 7.5 kilometres and each of the towers had been airlifted in place by helicopters to minimize the impact on the rainforest."
  • "The last stop on the cableway was the small town of Kuranda."
  • "I rode the eastern cableway up with my baby-boomer parents."