Crossword clues for telpher
telpher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Telpher \Tel"pher\, n. [Gr. ? far, far off + fe`rein to bear.]
(Elec.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
--Fleeming Jenkin.-
(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.
Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An electric-run cable car used for transportation, along overhead wires. 2 A system of transportation using telphers. vb. To transport with a telpher.
WordNet
n. one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage [syn: telfer]
Usage examples of "telpher".
This purely mental approach to what was after all a most acutely emotional problem, at least for Timothy, was getting under his skin and he turned to Geraldine Telpher who was sitting listening, her head bent and her gaze fixed on her folded hands.
The Kinnit resemblance both between brother and sister and Geraldine Telpher herself had never appeared more marked.
Geraldine Telpher inclined her head gravely and everyone was left a little irritated, as if she had disparaged the contents of the house.
It was Eustace who spoke but both Alison and Geraldine Telpher looked up with exactly the same twinkling smile of good-tempered derision.
Alison was on the verge of tears and for once even Geraldine Telpher seemed startled out of her natural calm.
She addressed Alison, who shook her head without speaking, but Geraldine Telpher looked up.
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.
One telpher was taken from each of the Intermediate Shafts to operate at each of the West Shafts.
In capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.
They pulled on the line, drawing the telpher cables down, and made them fast to three anchors.
Latimer leaped again for the boat, and shortly the telpher began to move.
Electrically-operated telphers, suspended from a timber trestle, hoisted the buckets, and, traveling on a mono-rail track, deposited them on wagons for transportation to the dock.
The telphers were built by the Dodge Cold Storage Company, and were operated by a 75-h.
Railroad Company, on the north side of the streets, and each was equipped with two telphers supported on timber trestles, similar to those at First Avenue.
A train, therefore, could be emptied or a boat loaded under the bank of eight telphers in one-fourth the time required by the derricks, of which only two could work on one boat.