Telpherage

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Telpherage \Tel"pher*age\, n.
     1. The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of
        electricity. --Fleeming Jenkin.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Elec.) Specif., electric transportation of goods by means


        of carriages suspended on overhead conductors, as of wire,
        the power being conveyed to the motor carriage by the
        wires on which it runs. Telpherage and telpher are
        sometimes applied to such systems in which the motive
        power is not electricity.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  telpherage
       n : a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are
           suspended from cables and operated on electricity [syn: {telferage}]