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telphers

telphers is the plural of telpher.

telphers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of telpher.

Meaning of telpher

Noun

telpher (plural telphers)

  1. An electric-run cable car used for transportation, along overhead wires.
  2. A system of transportation using telphers.
    • In 1898, the ever-innovative Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway installed an overhead delivery system known as a 'telpher'. […] But the telpher at Manchester Victoria wasn't part of a crane. It was part of an extraordinary dual-railed overhead line, a little like a suspended monorail, with individually...2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 55

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Questions about telphers

What is telphers the plural of?
Telphers is the plural of telpher.

Words near telphers in the dictionary

  1. telphered
  2. telpheric
  3. telphering
  4. telpherman
  5. telphermen
  6. telphers
  7. telpherway
  8. telpherways
  9. telpochcalli
  10. telpochcallis
  11. telpochcaltin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telphers (page history and authors); telpher (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.

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