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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tram .
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Examples
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Shaft sinkers and developers were the direct descendants of the contractor who in early days on the goldfields had developed, stoped or trammed* for a fixed price per unit of work done.
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 13 Ray Esther 1969
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Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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At the expiration of that time the pile is broken into and sorted, the imperfectly roasted ore is returned to a fresh roast-heap, and the rest trammed to the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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A bonus per foot of heading gained above a minimum, or an excess of trucks trammed beyond a minimum, or prizes for the largest amount done during the week or month in special works or in different shifts, -- all these have a useful application in creating efficiency.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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Say, Dan'l had a line of faults, all right -- but, by God! he'd a trammed ore fur two twenty-five a day any time in his life rather'n not pay a dollar he owed.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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'St. John Hammersmith!' says he, steaming up, 'When he trammed ore for three-fifty a day and went to bed with his clothes on any night he'd the price of a quart of gin-and-beer mixed -- liking to get his quick -- his name was naked' John 'with never a
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.
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I walked and boated and trammed as much as I could, which is actually quite a lot in a city as small as
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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We then took the metro out to Zeytinburnu and trammed our way in to Sultanahmet.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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