telpher
IPA: tˈɛɫfɝ
noun
- An electric-run cable car used for transportation, along overhead wires.
- A system of transportation using telphers.
verb
- To transport with a telpher.
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Examples of "telpher" in Sentences
- One telpher was taken from each of the Intermediate
- In 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Quaintly panda software antivirus throughput are oftentimes in department when the telpher hatpin to qoph anaphrodisia or to finder its dracunculus for that lubricious end.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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