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cliff lifts

cliff lifts is the plural of cliff lift.

Meaning of cliff lift

Noun

cliff lift (plural cliff lifts)

  1. (UK) A funicular that runs between the top and the bottom of a cliff, usually at a seaside location.
    • 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...1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514
    Synonyms:
    cliff railway
  2. A vertical lift or elevator serving the same purpose at some locations.

Questions about cliff lifts

What is cliff lifts the plural of?
Cliff lifts is the plural of cliff lift.

Words near cliff lifts in the dictionary

  1. cliff falls
  2. cliff green
  3. cliff hanger
  4. cliff hangers
  5. cliff lift
  6. cliff lifts
  7. cliff notes
  8. cliff railway
  9. cliff railways
  10. cliff rose
  11. cliff roses

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