Tramway
[træmwei]
Definition
(noun.) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
Edited by Adrian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Same as Tramroad.
(n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
Editor: Mary
Examples
- One of these, known as Blenkinsop’s Leeds engine, ran on a tramway, and would draw sixteen wagons with a weight of seventy tons at the rate of about three miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was a member of the syndicate of tramway drivers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was a lovely day and we drove out through the park and out along the tramway and out of town where the road was dusty. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- To protect the wood from wearing away, broad plates of iron were afterwards fixed on the tramways. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Typist: Mabel