dolly

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Informal A child's doll.
2. n. A low mobile platform that rolls on casters, used for transporting heavy loads.
3. n. Such a platform as used by one working underneath a motor vehicle.
4. n. A hand truck.
5. n. A wheeled apparatus used to transport a movie or television camera about a set.
6. n. A small locomotive, as for use in a railroad yard or on a construction site.
7. n. A wooden implement for stirring clothes in a washtub.
8. n. A tool used to hold one end of a rivet while the opposite end is being hammered to form a head.
9. n. A small piece of wood or metal placed on the head of a pile to prevent damage to the pile while it is being driven.
10. v. To move the wheeled apparatus on which a movie or television camera is mounted toward or away from the scene of action.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Same as doll.
2. n. A doll. See doll.
3. n. In mining, the flat disk of wood which moves up and down in the keeve or dolly-tub in the process of concentrating ore by tossing and packing. See toss.
4. n. In pile-driving, an extension-piece placed on the upper end of a pile, when the head of the pile is beyond the reach of the monkey.
5. n. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet; a snap-head.
6. n. A primitive form of apparatus for clothes-washing, consisting of a wooden disk furnished with from three to five legs with rounded ends, and a handle with a cross-piece rising from the center. The dolly is jerked rapidly around in different directions in a tub or box in which the clothes to be washed are immersed in water.
7. In mining, to concentrate or dress (ore) by the use of the dolly.
8. n. In India, a complimentary offering of fruit and flowers, sweetmeats, and the like, usually presented on trays or brass dishes.
9. n. A machine for washing pieces of cloth. The pieces are sewn together into an endless band, which is then passed through a detergent liquor and afterward wrung between two heavy rollers.

Wiktionary

1. n. A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
2. n. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
3. n. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
4. n. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
5. n. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
6. n. film A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
7. n. colloquial : A child's name for a doll.
8. n. cricket A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
9. n. a doll
10. v. transitive, cricket To hit a dolly.
11. v. To move an object using a dolly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Mining) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
2. n. (Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
3. n. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
4. n. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
5. n. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
6. n. A child's mane for a doll.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a small replica of a person; used as a toy
2. n. conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted
3. n. conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects