Stanhope

Definitions

1. A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
2. A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
3. A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
4. A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
5. An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
6. A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
7. An English habitational surname from Old English.
8. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
9. A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia
10. A locale in Canada.
11. A village in Quebec.
12. A community in Prince Edward Island.
13. A settlement in Newfoundland.
14. A locale in the United States.
15. A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
16. A borough of New Jersey.
17. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
18. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Equivalents

Examples

“Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have⟳ been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.”

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