stanhope

/ˈstæ.nəp/
name 5noun 3

Definitions

name

1

A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).

2

A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).

3

A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).

4

An English habitational surname from Old English.

5

A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.

noun

1

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

1

A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other

2

An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron

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