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Telescoping   Listen
adjective
Telescoping  adj.  Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of sections or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, telescoping tripod legs; a telescoping table, etc.; a term replacing the formerly used telescope.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Telescoping" Quotes from Famous Books



... who drove up with their host in the cart, one was Breboeuf, a hunchback. This little creature on being introduced, bowed and shook hands with an aspect of hopeless resignation, and sitting down, relapsed into thought, telescoping his neck into his squarish shoulders. His companion was a young man of small build, but spirited, good-looking face—De La Lande, schoolmaster of the village, a son of the ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair



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