Crossword-Solution: TELPHER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Telpher | n. | A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “TELPHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Car suspended from overhead cables. | 1 answer |
| Electric transportation | 1 answer |
| TELPHERAGE, traveling/travelling unit in | 1 answer |
| TRAVELLING unit | 1 answer |
| Aerial cable car | 2 answers |
| Overhead cable car | 2 answers |
| CAR CABLE | 10 answers |
| cable car | 11 answers |
| Car | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TELPHER (5)
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.
Moved by these considerations, I wrote asking Professor Ayrton to co-operate in the development of my scheme, and suggesting that he should join with me in taking out my first Telpher patent.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–2000).