1. Noun
An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
2. Adjective
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.
3. Verb
To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
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