Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for gauging and adjusting machine parts; a trammel.
- noun Accurate mechanical adjustment.
- transitive verb To adjust or align (mechanical parts) with a trammel.
- noun A shiny silk thread with very little twist, primarily used as a weft yarn.
- noun A streetcar.
- noun A streetcar line.
- noun A cable car, especially one suspended from an overhead cable.
- noun A four-wheeled, open, box-shaped wagon or iron car run on tracks in a coal mine.
- transitive verb To move or convey in a tram.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beam or bar: as, gallows trams.
- noun The shaft of a cart, wheelbarrow, or vehicle of any kind.
- noun A plank road.
- noun One of the two parallel lines of rails which form a tramway.
- noun A tramway.
- noun A four-wheeled car or wagon used in coal-mines, especially in the north of England, for conveying the coals from the working-places to the pit-bottom, or from the pit-mouth to the place of shipment.
- noun Same as
tram-car . - noun In a grinding-mill, position perpendicular to the face of the bedstone: said of a spindle. See
tramming . - To use a trammel or distance gage in order to get. two shafts, or other axes, parallel to one another, or at right angles to another axis to which both are to be perpendicular.
- noun A device, resembling a trammel, used for shaping oval molds, etc.
- noun See
tramway , 2. - noun A machine; a contrivance.
- noun A kind of double silk thread, in which two or move strands or singles are twisted together in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles, used for the weft or cross-threads of gros-de-Naples velvets, flowered silks, and the best varieties of silk goods. Also called
shute . - To move or transport on a tramway.
- To operate a tram; also, to travel by tram.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
- noun Prov. Eng. The shaft of a cart.
- noun One of the rails of a tramway.
- noun engraving A car on a horse railroad.
- noun a car made to run on a tramway, especially a street railway car.
- noun a flat piece of iron laid down as a rail.
- noun (Milling) the step and support for the lower end of the spindle of a millstone.
- intransitive verb To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.
- noun A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
- noun (Mech.) Same as
trammel , n., 6. - transitive verb To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
- noun A
passenger vehicle forpublic use that runs ontracks in the road. - noun A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
- verb transitive To transport (material) by tram.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- verb travel by tram
- noun a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine
- noun a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Sawmills had what they called tram roads, which runned manybe five or six miles down through the woods.
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A better description of the tram is one of the several irons around the ankle of OHSU that prevents it from escaping the red.
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Note to anyone thinking about doing this hike: The tram is closed on Sundays.
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The ride was a BSG 1.0 tie-in in which your Universal Studios tram is captured by Cylons who apparently are attempting to invade the San Fernando Valley.
Boing Boing 2008
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Then a normal life at the level of a regular clerk up early street tram office again tram home sleep
herbert zbigniew | a life « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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In total, will pass in tram 28, 65 fado singers and 23 musicians.
Archive 2007-06-01 Red 2007
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In total, will pass in tram 28, 65 fado singers and 23 musicians.
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The hotel is on the outskirts of Athens, 50 minutes by tram from the city centre.
From Athens with love nathreee 2007
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The horse-drawn tram is a notable feature of Victor Harbor, though for the productivity-minded it’s worth pointing out that it’s actually quicker to walk.
HLO Days 2-3: Transport And Laundry Are Too Easy | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Though I feel the tram was a waste of civic cash, I kinda like hiking the 4-T's Trail from the Zoo to Council Crest, then walking down to OHSU and riding the tram down to SoWhat.
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A trammer’s job was to push a ‘tram’ – an empty coal tub – up the gate and into the bank.
Joe Kenyon · Working Underground · LRB 27 November 1997 Joe Kenyon 2020
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