tram

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There will be rest stations along the route, and a tram will be available for people who do not wish to walk the entire route.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A streetcar.
  2. noun Chiefly British A streetcar line.
  3. noun A cable car, especially one suspended from an overhead cable.
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  • For a moment, I thought we'd been jettisoned into the vacuum ... then the cab passed through a ring, and I realized that the tram was a pneumatic tube running along the side of a thick cable. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • Seventeen minutes left, and the tram will be at North Dock in less than ten. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space
  • Most newspapers focused on protecting the heritage value of the tram, which is the only double-deck system still operating in the world and one of the most high-profile pieces of the city's colonial history. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • But the tram has been such an overwhelming success that Paris and the RATP are already conducting initial studies on a proposed extension. —  Torontoist
  • We'd also figured out by accident (as the tram was to full to get to the machine, which got us thinking) that if you don't validate your ticket the first time you get on then your 2 hours don't start until you do so we could use the same ticket on the way back. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. Scots, shaft of a barrow, probably from Middle Flemish.
  2. Short for trammel.
  3. Middle English, contrivance, from Old French traime, contrivance, weft, from Latin trāma, weft, woof.

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  1. tram(mel). See tram, n.
  2. from Old Swedish *tram. tråm, trum, a log, stock of a tree, Swedish dial. tromm, trömm, trumm, a stump, the end of a log, also a kind of sled, =Norwegian tram, tröm, trumm, edge, brim, tram, a step, door-step, =Danish dial, trom, end, stump, =Icelandic thrömr (thram-), edge, brim, =Middle Dutch drom, a beam, balk, =Middle Low German trāme, a cross-piece, a round of a ladder, a step of a chair, Low German traam (from G. or Scandinavian), a beam, balk, handle of a wheelbarrow or sled, =Old High German drām, trām, beam, balk (later Middle High German drāmen, supply with beams or props), German tram, a beam; forms in gradation, or in part identical, with Middle English thrum =Middle Dutch drom, the end of a weaver's thread, thrum, =Old High German drum, dhrum, Middle High German drum, German trumm, thrum, end, stump of a tree; akin to L. terminus, end, Greek τέρμα, end: see thrumand term, Cf. Old French trameau, a sled, or dray without wheels. The senses and forms are involved, but the development seems to have been, ‘end, fragment, stump, log, pole (shaft, handle), bar, beam, railroading’ The English word in the sense ‘rail’ seems to have been applied to a rail or plank in a tram-road or plank road, thence to the lines of rails or planks, and thence to the road itself. In the sense of ‘car’ or ‘tram-car’ it is prob. short for tram-car, but tram as a ‘mine-car’ (def. 6) may represent the Swedish word in the sense ‘a kind of sled.’
  3. from tram, n.
  4. Middle English tramme, traimme; origin obscure.
  5. Cf. tram and trammel.
  6. =G. Danish trame, from French trame, tram, weft, from Italian trama, woof, weft, from Latin trama, weft.
 

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