Mining. A small mine car, typically used for transporting small loads of coal within a mine. Now historical. Cf. bogie, n. 1.

a system of tubs or buckets slung from an overhead cable for the purpose of carrying heavy materials across a space.

adj. or attributive.n. Of or relating to a system of telpherage; telpher line, telpher railway, a light overhead line on which the haulage is…

a carriage or tram-car moved by an endless chain or cable, e.g. on an overhead cable-way.

n. Any travelling unit on a telpher line; also, the plant and rolling stock of a system of telpherage.

An overhead or suspended carrier travelling on a cable.

A carrier operated by cables across a gorge, etc. Australian and New Zealand.