Tramway

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  • noun. A track or way for trams, as in a mine.
  • noun. A streetcar line.
  • noun. A cable or system of cables for a cable car.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The earliest form of railroad.
  • noun. A light or temporary railroad, as for the transportation of logs, often with wooden rails and operated by horse-power.
  • noun. A gutter attached to a pool-table, dsigned to save time in gathering the dead or pocketed balls. It is now, in improved form, attached to the under side of tables used in other pocket games.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as tramroad.
  • noun. A street railway laid in the streets of a town or city, or an interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for trains drawn by steam or electric locomotives.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the track on which a tram (streetcar) runs
  • noun. the system of cables that supports a cable car
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the track on which trams or streetcars run
  • noun. a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
    • Word Usage
    "I sat back down defiantly, picked up my blue pencil, and circled the word tramway."
    cross-reference
    aërial tramway  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conveyance  track  transport  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Mary  Watergate  bogie  cableway  chalkpit  
    variant
    tramroad  
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