Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A special form of rail, suitable for laying in streets for street railways.
- A rail suspended in a shop, factory, or warehouse on which a trolley or truck may run, so that loads suspended from the trolley may easily be transported from one part of the building to another in the same plane.
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Examples
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The two lads were to be our horses, and our way lay through a black hollow in one side of the cavern, into which the tram-rail ran.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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We stood together in a spacious cavern, poorly lighted by our candles; there was a line of tram-rail running through the middle of it, and we soon saw the carriage that was to take us out of the mountain emerging from a dark nook in the distance.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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It is asserted with equal confidence that the boy was a man who tried to pass across the front of the motor-car as it came slowly through the crowd, who escaped by a hair's breadth, and then slipped on the tram-rail and fell down.
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It is asserted with equal confidence that the boy was a man who tried to pass across the front of the motor-car as it came slowly through the crowd, who escaped by a hair’s breadth, and then slipped on the tram-rail and fell down.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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