Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tram or shaft of a wheelbarrow; hence, jocularly, a raw-boned fellow.
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Examples
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Sit down there, she said, pushing the half-throttled preacher with some violence against a broken chairsit down there, and gather your wind and your senses, ye black barrow-tram o the kirk that ye are!
Chapter XLVI 1917
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‘Sit down there,’ she said, pushing the half-throttled preacher with some violence against a broken chair — ‘sit down there and gather your wind and your senses, ye black barrow-tram o’ the kirk that ye are.
Guy Mannering 1815
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'Sit down there,' she said, pushing the half-throttled preacher with some violence against a broken chair -- 'sit down there and gather your wind and your senses, ye black barrow-tram o' the kirk that ye are.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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'Sit down there,' she said, pushing the half-throttled preacher with some violence against a broken chair -- 'sit down there and gather your wind and your senses, ye black barrow-tram o' the kirk that ye are.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Sit down there,' she said, pushing the half-throttled preacher with some violence against a broken chair -- 'sit down there and gather your wind and your senses, ye black barrow-tram o' the kirk that ye are.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
qms commented on the word barrow-tram
A bullock at work that barrow-tram
Was otherwise only a callow lamb.
He met a faux gypsy
Who helped him get tipsy
Then took all his cash with a tarot scam.
February 28, 2017
bilby commented on the word barrow-tram
There's a lot going on in that limerick.
February 28, 2017