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

 telpherage
 空中電纜運輸

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tel·pher·age n.
 1. The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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