Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, a. [imp. & p. p. {Telescoped}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Telescoping}.]
   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. [Recent]