"cliff railway" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "cliff railway (plural cliff railways)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:",
          "text": "A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as \"cliff lifts,\" which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of cliff lift (Sense 1)."
      ],
      "id": "en-cliff_railway-en-noun-pLXqmTAR",
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        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "cliff lift",
          "cliff lift#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transport, rail transport, UK) Synonym of cliff lift (Sense 1)."
      ],
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          "word": "cliff lift"
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cliff railway"
}

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    {
      "form": "cliff railways",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cliff railway (plural cliff railways)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:",
          "text": "A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as \"cliff lifts,\" which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Synonym of cliff lift (Sense 1)."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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          "cliff lift",
          "cliff lift#English"
        ]
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        "(transport, rail transport, UK) Synonym of cliff lift (Sense 1)."
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  "word": "cliff railway"
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