Trailer
['treɪlə] or ['trelɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy.
(noun.) a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor.
Editor: Philip--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, trails.
(n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
Edited by Horace
Examples
- In his case a trailer of ivy had given way under his weight, and we saw by the light of a lantern the mark on the lawn where his heels had come down. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The locomotive weighed three tons, was twelve feet long, five feet wide, and made a speed of nine miles an hour with a trailer car for passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The current is transmitted to the electric motors, actuating each of the wheels of the power car and the trailers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the equipments owned by such companies there are included 68,636 electric cars and 17,568 trailers and others, making a total of 86,204 of such vehicles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typed by Clarissa