Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A road in which the track for the wheels is made of pieces of wood; flat stones, or plates of iron laid in line; a tramway. See
tramway .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.
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- noun A
road designed for use bytrams orwagons .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If coal of sufficiently good quality should be found, a tramroad would be made, and would be very easily worked, owing to the regular descent of the valley.
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Burgess, hurried down the tramroad by his men, had tarried at
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Long Bay, as the extension of the sea – arm was named, a convict – made tramroad ran due north, through the nearly impenetrable thicket to Norfolk Bay.
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The first iron tramroad from Croydon to Wandsworth was completed July 24th,
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various
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An English engineer offered to lay a tramroad across Siberia, after Muravieff had carried Russia to the Pacific by his brilliant annexation of the mouths of the Amur.
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Argument being a cool field where the farmer could meet and match him, the young man got on the tramroad of his passion, and went ahead.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Argument being a cool field where the farmer could meet and match him, the young man got on the tramroad of his passion, and went ahead.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Argument being a cool field where the farmer could meet and match him, the young man got on the tramroad of his passion, and went ahead.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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If coal of sufficiently good quality should be found, a tramroad would be made, and would be very easily worked, owing to the regular descent of the valley.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Above it, on a tramroad supported by pillars, is a Chinese
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