telpher line
telpher line noun: an electrically-powered track and cable designed for conveying freight-filled vehicles.
Noun
telpher line (plural telpher lines)
- An electrically-powered track and cable designed for conveying freight-filled vehicles.
- It must not be supposed that I look on the new telpher lines as likely to compete with railways or injure their traffic.1883, Fleming Jenkin, “On Telpherage”, in Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 29, page 511
- As a rule, telpher lines are of comparatively limited length. Originally, all telpher lines consisted of an elevated road, formed of a wire cable, on which vantages electrically propelled cars ran.1905, Edwin James Houston, Electricity in Every-day Life
- Synonyms:
- telpher road
Synonyms of telpher line
Forms of telpher line
| plural | telpher lines |
|---|
Questions about telpher line
- What does telpher line mean?
- Telpher line means an electrically-powered track and cable designed for conveying freight-filled vehicles.
- What part of speech is telpher line?
- Telpher line is a noun.
- What is the plural of telpher line?
- The plural of telpher line is telpher lines.
Words near telpher line in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: telpher line (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “telpher line.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/telpher_line. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.