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tram

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tram /tram/ (also tramcar)

▶noun

1 Brit. a passenger vehicle powered by electricity conveyed by overhead cables, and running on rails laid in a public road.

2 historical a low four-wheeled cart or barrow used in coal mines.

– origin C16: from Mid. Low Ger. and MDu. trame ‘beam, barrow shaft’.

'tram' also found in these Oxford entries:

motorman - pantograph - streetcar - tram road - tram silk - tramway - trolley - trolley car

Forum discussions with the word(s) "tram" in the title:

A bus that STANDS behind the tram?
designation of vehicles (bus or tram)
inter-current bus = tram or trolley bus?
The tram illuminated their faces.
to sit in a tram with the back forward/moving backwards
tram a position
tram-line thinking
walking tram

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