Crossword-Solution: FUNICULAR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Funicular | a. | Consisting of a small cord or fiber. |
| Funicular | a. | Dependent on the tension of a cord. |
| Funicular | a. | Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FUNICULAR | anagram | RALUCINUF |
We have 15 clues for the answer “FUNICULAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alpine railway | 1 answer |
| Cable railway | 1 answer |
| Cable railway for a steep slope | 1 answer |
| Mountain railway | 1 answer |
| Of a mountain railway | 1 answer |
| Of ropes or cords | 1 answer |
| ROPE tension (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Worked by a cable, as a railway | 1 answer |
| cable railway on a mountainside or cliff | 1 answer |
| LIGAMENT, type of | 3 answers |
| RAILROAD, high | 3 answers |
| A CONVEYANCE FOR PASSENGERS OR FREIGHT ON A CABLE RAILWAY | 10 answers |
| Fibrous | 15 answers |
| Railway | 47 answers |
| Railroad | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FUNICULAR (5)
This third day--the weather still remaining bright--they had ascended by the funicular road to Glion, and walked on among the swarming luegers, up to Caux.
Looking sideways, there was nothing very startling in what he saw--a rapid funicular railway might have given the same sensations.
When the summer heat arrives, in June, the young ones, probably aided by their mother, pierce the walls of their cells, leave the maternal tent, of which they know the secret outlet well, take the air on the threshold for a few hours and then fly away, carried to some distance by a funicular aeroplane, the first product of their spinning-mill.
The ascent is easily made by means of a funicular railway, and in the course of the half-hour it takes to reach the top one is able to get an idea of the luxuriant fertility of the island.
Further on yet, between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, in that rich Allegheny country where the coal-beds lie on the surface, and coal costs five francs a ton, and whence petroleum oil was soon to gush forth, the travelling was done by canal in the flat country, and by funicular railways in the mountains, by means of boats built in sections which hooked together on the water, and were taken apart when there was a question of climbing up inclined planes.
Quotes with FUNICULAR (2)
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
I had walked over to the window and was looking down at the rails of the Montmartre funicular, the gardens of the Sacré Cœur and, further off, the whole of Paris, with its lights, its roofs, its shadows. Denise Coudreuse and I had met one day in this maze of roads and boulevards. Paths that cross, among those of thousands and thousands of people all over Paris, like countless little balls on a gigantic, electric billiard table, which occasionally bump into each other. And not…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1988–2025).