Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rheophore \Rhe"o*phore\, n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + ??? to carry.]
   (Elec.)
   (a) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus,
       traversed by a current.
   (b) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.