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Tramcar

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A streetcar.

    "A style guide of the 1930s for journalists on the Daily Express tried to bring trams upmarket by insisting they be called 'tramcars'."

  2. 2
    a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity wordnet
  3. 3
    A rail vehicle for carrying loads in a mine; a tram.

    "We arrived at level 15 where we piled into a battery powered tramcar for a ten minute ride to the section of the mine we would be visiting. Packed into the tram we realized why the gigantic cooling and ventilation systems on the surface pumps 550 cubic meters of air into the mine each second."

  4. 4
    a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine wordnet

Etymology

From tram + car.

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