Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tramway.
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Examples
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Trondheim has a tram-line interurban, yet the city has a density of 480 persons/km.
Vancouver’s CanadaLine to open in September « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009
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Out he shot into Hill Street again, three hundred yards from the tram-line end, and immediately he became aware of a tumultuous vociferation and running people.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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We had time to note again in the Paseo Castellana, which is the fashionable drive, that it consists of four rows of acacias and tamarisks and a stretch of lawn, with seats beside it; the rest is bare grasslessness, with a bridle-path on one side and a tram-line on the other.
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One day he stumbled across a tram-line, and, falling, broke his leg -- hopelessly snapping the tendon, and otherwise injuring himself -- and he was carted off to the knackers to receive his _coup de grâce_.
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Our car was run on to the tram-line, and the two lads, with a sickly smile, and a broad hint at their expected gratuity, began to pull, and promised us a rapid journey.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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They climbed upon the roofs, the balconies, held themselves perilously upon the sloping verandas, they stood upon window-sills, and hung from electric light pillars, and tram-line standards.
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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A tram-line connects it with Neath, 2 m. distant, and the Vale of Neath Canal (made in 1797) has its terminus here.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Mills, and could have afforded a nice little house in the suburbs on the tram-line, for he earned good wages; but he found it more convenient to be close to the mills, so that he could rest between his rounds, and in cold weather warm and refresh himself during the night.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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Its forty miles of Rand steam tram-line and thirty-five miles of railway from the Vaal
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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Robert Jordan had gone back to look for the tank which Montero said he thought might have stopped behind the apartment building on the corner of the tram-line.
For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940
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