tram

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Chiefly British A streetcar.
2. n. Chiefly British A streetcar line.
3. n. A cable car, especially one suspended from an overhead cable.
4. n. A four-wheeled, open, box-shaped wagon or iron car run on tracks in a coal mine.
5. v. To move or convey in a tram.
6. n. An instrument for gauging and adjusting machine parts; a trammel.
7. n. Accurate mechanical adjustment: The device is in tram.
8. v. To adjust or align (mechanical parts) with a trammel.
9. n. A heavy silk thread used for the weft, or cross threads, in fine velvet or silk.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. See tramway, 2.
2. To use a trammel or distance gage in order to get. two shafts, or other axes, parallel to one another, or at right angles to another axis to which both are to be perpendicular. Used of railway axles or those of locomotive drivers; of a millstone spindle in relation to the plane in which the stone or mill is to revolve; and of the shafts'of engines relatively to the bed-plate, etc.
3. n. A beam or bar: as, gallows trams.
4. n. The shaft of a cart, wheelbarrow, or vehicle of any kind.
5. n. A plank road.
6. n. One of the two parallel lines of rails which form a tramway.
7. n. A tramway.
8. n. A four-wheeled car or wagon used in coal-mines, especially in the north of England, for conveying the coals from the working-places to the pit-bottom, or from the pit-mouth to the place of shipment. The words tram, corf, box, tub, and skip are all in use in English collieries to designate some kind of a box-like receptacle, vehicle, or car by which coal is transported, either above or beneath the surface.
9. n. Same as tram-car.
10. n. In a grinding-mill, position perpendicular to the face of the bedstone: said of a spindle. See tramming.
11. To move or transport on a tramway.
12. To operate a tram; also, to travel by tram.
13. n. A machine; a contrivance.
14. n. A device, resembling a trammel, used for shaping oval molds, etc.
15. n. A kind of double silk thread, in which two or move strands or singles are twisted together in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles, used for the weft or cross-threads of gros-de-Naples velvets, flowered silks, and the best varieties of silk goods. Also called shute.

Wiktionary

1. n. A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road.
2. n. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
3. v. transitive To transport (material) by tram.
4. n. A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
2. n. Prov. Eng. The shaft of a cart.
3. n. One of the rails of a tramway.
4. n. engraving A car on a horse railroad.
5. n. A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
6. n. (Mech.) Same as trammel, n., 6.
7. v. To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.
8. v. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
2. v. travel by tram
3. n. a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine
4. n. a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity