1) Cable car railway 
A cable grip is a device for propelling a vehicle by attaching to a wire cable (also called wire rope) running at a (relatively) constant speed. The vehicle may be suspended from the cable, as in the case of aerial lifts such as a gondola lift (télécabine), may be guided by rails, as in a cable traction railway, or may be self-guiding, as in a b...
a woven tubular device placed around a cable, reducing in diameter as the result of an applied pulling force and used to grip the cable