Telescope

Telescope - Other Definitions

• (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
  
  
• (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
  
  
• (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.