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telpher

POS

Noun, Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

tel=pher

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun telpher has 1 sense

telpher(n = noun.artifact) telfer - one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage; Array

is a kind of conveyance, transport

is a part of telferage, telpherage

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CIDE DICTIONARY

telpher, n. [Gr. far, far off + fe`rein to bear.].

A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin. [1913 Webster]
Specif., the equipment or apparatus used in a system of electric transportation by means of carriages which are suspended on an overhead conductor, as of wire. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

telpher, n. a system for transporting goods etc. by electrically driven trucks or cable-cars.

Derivative

telpherage n.

Etymology

TELE- + -PHORE

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