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tram

[tram] / træm /
NOUN
trolley
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"Whilst some issues have delayed the introduction of the new tram trains TfW remains on target to complete the full rollout by the end of next year," it added.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

More than 40 metro stations will be closed in the capital and tram services will also be disrupted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

More than 40 Paris metro stations will be closed and tram services will also be disrupted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

I can still picture the tram driver who patched together my grandmother’s clunker and the sign maker lettering Jesus’ words along the road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Waiting for the number one tram on a wide street busy with traffic, I said to Augustus, “The suit you wear to funerals, I assume?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

We had tea in the town and trammed back.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

I trammed over to the Vatican to see the Sistine Chapel this time and the Stanze and Loggie of Raphael.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.

From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins

"You're not going to see it tramming through because there's no hardness in the wickets – other than frost," said the Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013

Thus tramming and shaft work, as stated before, can be concentrated.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

On mines where the volume of ore does not warrant mechanical haulage, the cost of tramming through the extra distance involved is an expense which outweighs any extra operating outlay in the inclined shaft itself.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

"Proportional charges" are those which, like ore-breaking, stoping, supporting stopes, and tramming, are a direct coefficient of the ore extracted.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

The tramming of ore by hand through such a distance would cost about double the amount to hoist it through a shaft and transport it mechanically to the dressing plant at surface.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover


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