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tramcar

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tram

1  [tram] ,noun, verb, trammed, tram⋅ming.
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–noun
1. British. a streetcar.
2. a tramway; tramroad.
3. Also called tram⋅car  [tram-kahr] . a truck or car on rails for carrying loads in a mine.
4. the vehicle or cage of an overhead carrier.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
5. to convey or travel by tram.
Origin:
1490–1500 for an earlier sense; 1820–30 for def. 2; orig. shafts of a barrow or cart, rails for carts (in mines); perh. < MD trame beam

Related forms:
tramless, adjective
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tram·car   (trām'kär')   
n.  

  1. Chiefly British A streetcar.

  2. A coal car in a mine.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

tram 
c.1500, "beam or shaft of a barrow or sledge," also "a barrow or truck body" (1516), Scottish, originally in reference to the iron trucks used in coal mines, probably from Middle Flemish tram "beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung," a North Sea Gmc. word of unknown origin. The sense of "track for a barrow, tramway" is first recorded 1826; that of "streetcar" is first recorded 1860. Tram-car is attested from 1873.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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