streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car
(noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll.
trolley (plural trollies or trolleys)
(Australian, New Zealand, British) A cart or shopping cart.
(British) A hand truck.
(British) A soapbox car.
(British) A gurney.
A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line usually for a tram or streetcar. Usually called a trolley pole.
(US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
(US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a system.
A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
trolley (third-person singular simple present trolleys, present participle trolleying, simple past and past participle trollied or trolleyed)
To bring to by trolley.
To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
Source: Wiktionary
Trol"ley, Trol"ly, n. (a) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [Eng.] (b) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.] (c) (Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. (d) (Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. Trolley line, (a) A trolley(e). (b) The path along which a trolley(e) runs.
– Trolley car, a wheeled car powered by electricity drawn from a trolley, and thus constrained to follow the trolley lines.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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