stanhope
Definitions
name
A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
An English habitational surname from Old English.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
noun
A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
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.
noun
A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron