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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 telpher
 空中纜車,索道(a.)纜車的(vt.)用纜車運輸

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tel·pher n.
 1. Elec. A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
 2. Elec. Specif., the equipment or apparatus used in a system of electric transportation by means of carriages which are suspended on an overhead conductor, as of wire.
 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 telpher
      n : one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage [syn: telfer]