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tram

[tram] / træm /
NOUN
trolley
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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

Traveller Jill Stakem reported the airport's internal tram system had failed earlier and people were "being held in a corridor for over 90 minutes".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

But when I boarded a tram, I recognized someone: The driver was my Good Samaritan from the highway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

In the second frame, everyone from the tram stands near the rear entrance of the theater.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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

We had tea in the town and trammed back.

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

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

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

"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

By shortening this distance of tramming and by consolidation of the material from all levels at the surface, where mechanical haulage can be installed, a second shaft is often justified.

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

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

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

Finally the tramming once more,—and the light approached.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper


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