Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small traveling car, usually driven by electricity, suspended from or moving on an overhead rail or cable.
- noun A transportation system using telphers.
- transitive verb To transport by telpher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The motor employed in hauling the carriers of a telpherage system.
- Of or relating to a system of telpherage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
- noun (Elec.) 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.
- noun an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An electric-run
cable car used fortransportation , alongoverhead wires . - noun A system of transportation using telphers.
- verb To
transport with a telpher.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vehicles passed in whispers along the traffic streets and the overhead telpher networks, and the cries of birds could be distinguished in the most densely populated areas.
Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990
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I have been encouraged to choose Telpherage as the subject of my address by the fact that a public exhibition of a telpher line, with trains running on it, will be made this afternoon for the first time.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various
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One telpher was taken from each of the Intermediate
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In capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites.
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Each telpher occupied the space between two bents, about 10 ft., so that the entire bank commanded a length of 80 ft., which was approximately the length of a rock scow between bulkheads.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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At the South Shaft the cement was delivered to this floor from the loading platform through a spiral steel chute; at the North Shaft it was lowered in buckets by the telpher.
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The word should, by the ordinary rules of derivation, be telphorage; but as this word sounds badly to my ear, I ventured to adopt such a modified form as constant usage in England for a few centuries might have produced, and I was the more ready to trust to my ear in the matter because the word telpher relieves us from the confusion which might arise between telephore and telephone, when written.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various
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At the North Shaft steel-plate bins were used, and were supplied with material by the buckets handled by the telpher.
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reesetee commented on the word telpher
A small traveling car, usually driven by electricity, suspended from or moving on an overhead rail or cable; or a transportation system using telphers.
February 9, 2008
john commented on the word telpher
Reminds me of the best part of the New York City subway system, the Roosevelt Island Tram. Until a few years ago it was the last part of the system that still used subway tokens.
February 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word telpher
Neat sites, John! I know people who've turned their tokens into jewelry. Can't do that with a metro card. (Well, you could, but it wouldn't be quite the same.)
February 9, 2008