Perambulator
[pə'ræmbjʊleɪtə] or [pə'ræmbjuletɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who perambulates.
(n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.
(n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.
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Examples
- Children's chairs are made so that the seat may be raised or lowered, or the chair converted into a perambulator. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And I assure you it wrenched the imagination to see tidy nursemaids wheeling perambulators and children playing diavolo on the very square where Bloody Sunday had gone into history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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