Definitions for telpher

telpher tel·pher

Spelling: [tel-fer]
IPA: /ˈtɛl fər/

Telpher is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in telpher (eehlprt).

Definitions for telpher

noun

  1. Also, teleferic. a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.

adjective

  1. of or relating to a system of telpherage.

verb (used with object)

  1. to transport by means of a telpherage.

Origin of telpher

1880-85; alteration of telephore. See tele-1, -phore

Examples for telpher

From the telpher are suspended carriers which can be adapted to any kind of material.

A telpher line on his system was subsequently erected at Glynde in Sussex.

telpher, tel′fėr, adj. pertaining to a system of telpherage.

At the North Shaft steel-plate bins were used, and were supplied with material by the buckets handled by the telpher.

In capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.

By opening a switch the current is cut off from the corresponding section, and the telpher will stop when it reaches this point.

Word Value for telpher
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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