Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A baby carriage.
- noun Chiefly New England A small dinghy having a flat, snub-nosed bow.
- noun A flatbottom boat used chiefly in the Baltic Sea as a barge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perambulator.
- noun A sort of push-cart for carrying milk on a route to customers.
- noun A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, used in the Netherlands and the Baltic ports for loading and unloading merchant vessels.
- noun Milit., a similar barge or lighter mounted with guns, and used as a floating battery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) See
praam . - noun a
perambulator{3} ; -- British informal shortened form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, Australia, New Zealand A small
vehicle , usually covered, in which a newbornbaby is pushed around in a lying position; aperambulator . - noun nautical, historical A
flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to conveycargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. - noun nautical, historical A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
- noun A type of
dinghy with a flat bow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A woman leavers a child in pram outside a chemist's shop and goes in.
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A woman leavers a child in pram outside a chemist's shop and goes in.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Throwing the toys out of the pram is putting it mildly but this is censorship by any other name and of the worst possible kind.
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Throwing the toys out of the pram is putting it mildly but this is censorship by any other name and of the worst possible kind.
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Throwing the toys out of the pram is putting it mildly but this is censorship by any other name and of the worst possible kind.
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Don's eyes widened when he saw that it was a Martian's "pram" - the self-propelled personal environment without which a Martian cannot live either on Earth or Venus.
Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951
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* rant over - picks up toys, puts them back in pram*
Today 2005
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Throwing your toys out of the pram is the most you have managed to do.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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We had a rough time getting the stuff away undamaged by the sea, but the pram was a wonderful sea-boat and we took it in turns to work her through the surf until everything was away.
South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918
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I don't know how many Norah turned – but when Dad and I got to the spot she was sitting on a thick mat of grass, laughing like one o'clock, and the pram was about half a mile away on the flat with its wheels in the air!
A Little Bush Maid 1910
jodi commented on the word pram
For AmE use baby carriage or the more modern stroller
April 18, 2011