stanhope

plural stanhopes

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.

   1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

plural stanhopes

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

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.
6. A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
7. A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia.
8. A locale in Canada.
   1. A village in Quebec.
   2. A community in Prince Edward Island.
   3. A settlement in Newfoundland.
9. A locale in the United States.
   1. A city in Iowa; named for British adventurer and writer Lady Hester Stanhope.
   2. A borough in Sussex County, New Jersey.
   3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
   4. An unincorporated community in Ohio.