Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transportation system designed to carry large numbers of people quickly up a mountain, in which cabins or cars are strung between parallel sides of a looped elevated cable.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her husband, she says, mainly invested in improving the skiing, building more than 30 lifts and the only funitel tram — a type of aerial lift that originated in Europe — in the U.S.
Squaw Valley Seeks to Regain Edge Jim Carlton 2010
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Her husband, she says, mainly invested in improving the skiing, building more than 30 lifts and the only funitel tram — a type of aerial lift that originated in Europe — in the U.S.
Squaw Valley Seeks to Regain Edge Jim Carlton 2010
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Her husband, she says, mainly invested in improving the skiing, building more than 30 lifts and the only funitel tram — a type of aerial lift that originated in Europe — in the U.S.
Squaw Valley Seeks to Regain Edge Jim Carlton 2010
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For their needs, a funitel would be more cost effective and provide the same level of support.
Gondola planned for Burnaby Mountain « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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