telpher

American  

[tel-fer] / ˈtɛl fər /

Or telfer

noun

1. Also a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.

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adjective

1. of or relating to a system of telpherage.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport by means of a telpherage.

telpher British  

/ ˈtɛlfə /

noun

1. a load-carrying car in a telpherage

2. 1. another word for telpherage

   2. ( as modifier )

      a telpher line

      a telpher system

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verb

1. (tr) to transport (a load) by means of a telpherage

Other Word Forms

• telpheric
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of telpher

1880–85; alteration of telephore. See tele- ¹, -phore

Example Sentences

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telpher

The telpher itself consists of a light two-wheeled truck, carrying the driving motors, which, to avoid gearing or other complicated mechanism, are usually coupled directly to the axles of the telpher.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

In capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 by George C. Clarke

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.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 by George C. Clarke

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.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158 by James H. Brace

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.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158 by James H. Brace