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tram

[tram] / træm /
NOUN
trolley
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From my perch I see thousands of revelers pour from the tram, cars that magically found a parking spot, bikes, and buses.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

As a teacher in Greater Manchester, Wilkes could hop on a tram to take pupils to museums and different workplaces, including the BBC at MediaCity in Salford, as part of the curriculum.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

As for the second question, if I were former Dodgers owner and aerial tram godfather Frank McCourt, I’d fasten my seat belt, because the gondola is about to hit some heavy turbulence.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

She needed to leave the station around 4 a.m. to catch the first tram to a kindergarten where she works as a chef.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Waiting for the number one tram on a wide street busy with traffic, I said to Augustus, “The suit you wear to funerals, I assume?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

We had tea in the town and trammed back.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

I trammed over to the Vatican to see the Sistine Chapel this time and the Stanze and Loggie of Raphael.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.

From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins

Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

"You're not going to see it tramming through because there's no hardness in the wickets – other than frost," said the Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.

From The Guardian Mar. 30, 2013

On the floor were tons of the metal, ready for tramming.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

Then, at last, Dorine realized that she was not fit to be seen, after trotting and tramming the whole afternoon in the rain.

From Small Souls by Louis Couperus

"Proportional charges" are those which, like ore-breaking, stoping, supporting stopes, and tramming, are a direct coefficient of the ore extracted.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

On mines where the volume of ore does not warrant mechanical haulage, the cost of tramming through the extra distance involved is an expense which outweighs any extra operating outlay in the inclined shaft itself.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover




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