telfer

[ tel-fer ]

/ ˈtɛl fər /

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noun, adjective, verb (used with object)

telpher.

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OTHER WORDS FROM telfer

tel·fer·age, noun

Words nearby telfer

televisual, telework, teleworking, telewriter, telex, telfer, telferage, telford, Telford and Wrekin, telharmonium, telic

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How to use telfer in a sentence

When he got home he found Mary Telfer keeping his sister company.
The Squire's Daughter|Silas K(itto) Hocking
He would now be enabled to confound Telfer, one of the most learned of the Society's members, by the evidence of his spade work.
Border Ghost Stories|Howard Pease
Telfer said that I ought to have a man with me; one is not supposed to go about here alone; so he detailed a man.
At Ypres with Best-Dunkley|Thomas Hope Floyd
A few yards behind were the wiring party; so I whispered a word or two to Kerr and Telfer.
At Ypres with Best-Dunkley|Thomas Hope Floyd

Not nice to hear Huggo's loud, delighted laughter at everything addressed to him by Telfer.
This Freedom|A. S. M. Hutchinson

British Dictionary definitions for telfer

telfer

/ (ˈtɛlfə) /

noun

a variant spelling of telpher

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