trolley

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A streetcar.
2. n. A device that collects electric current from an underground conductor, an overhead wire, or a third rail and transmits it to the motor of an electric vehicle.
3. n. A small truck or car operating on a track and used in a mine, quarry, or factory for conveying materials.
4. n. A wheeled carriage, cage, or basket that is suspended from and travels on an overhead track.
5. n. Chiefly British A cart.
6. v. To convey (passengers) or travel by trolley.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Hence, a street-railway car propelled electrically by current taken by a trolley from a conductor.
2. n. A hand-car used on the rails by workmen on a railroad.
3. To convey by a trolley, as by a truck or car running upon a rail and driven mechanically or electrically.
4. To ride in an electrically-propelled car using the trolley system to transmit current to the motors.
5. n. A narrow cart used by coster-mongers, and pushed by hand or drawn by a donkey. Also troll.
6. n. A small truck or car for running on tracks in a rolling-mill or furnace. It is used to move heavy materials, and can be used as a tip-car.
7. n. In Eng. lace-making, lace the pattern of which is outlined with a thicker thread, or a flat narrow border made up of several such threads. The ground is usually a double ground, showing hexagonal and triangular meshes.
8. n. A metallic roller or pulley arranged to travel over, upon, and in contact with an electric conductor suspended overhead, and connected with a flexible conductor or a trolley-pole for conveying the current into the motor circuit on an electric car, as in many electric street-railways.

Wiktionary

1. n. New Zealand, UK A cart or shopping cart.
2. n. UK A hand truck.
3. n. UK A soapbox car.
4. n. UK A gurney.
5. n. A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar.
6. n. US A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
7. n. US, colloquial A light rail system or a train on such a system.
8. v. To bring to by trolley.
9. v. To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. engraving, engraving, engraving A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.
2. n. engraving A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.
3. n. (Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
4. n. (Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity