Associations to the word «Telpherage»

Wiktionary

TELPHERAGE, noun. An automated transportation system powered by electricity, especially a cable car used to transport minerals or other goods.

Dictionary definition

TELPHERAGE, noun. A transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats