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tram

[tram] / træm /
NOUN
trolley
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City of Edinburgh Council said "several tonnes" of debris had been removed from the site, and tram links would resume subject to "testing" on Friday.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

When Gaudí died in 1926, at age 73, in a tram accident, the building was less than a quarter complete.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

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 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

The only sound was the rumble of a departing tram.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

We had tea in the town and trammed back.

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

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

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

"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

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

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

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

"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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