telpher
or tel·fer
Also teleferic . a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.
of or relating to a system of telpherage.
to transport by means of a telpherage.
Origin of telpher
1Words Nearby telpher
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How to use telpher in a sentence
telpher, tel′fėr, adj. pertaining to a system of telpherage.
By opening a switch the current is cut off from the corresponding section, and the telpher will stop when it reaches this point.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald WilliamsIn capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.
At the North Shaft steel-plate bins were used, and were supplied with material by the buckets handled by the telpher.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 | James H. Brace and Francis MasonA telpher line on his system was subsequently erected at Glynde in Sussex.
British Dictionary definitions for telpher
telfer
/ (ˈtɛlfə) /
a load-carrying car in a telpherage
another word for telpherage
(as modifier): a telpher line; a telpher system
(tr) to transport (a load) by means of a telpherage
Origin of telpher
1Derived forms of telpher
- telpheric or telferic, adjective
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