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Tramway

noun
1.
A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.  Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram.
2.
The track on which trams or streetcars run.  Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline.



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"Tramway" Quotes from Famous Books



... back of the old cannery, which occupied a gap in the mountain rim, lay a narrow lake, and this, he declared, held an outlet which led into the Salmon River flats. By hauling the boats over into this body of water—a task made easy by the presence of a tiny tramway with one dilapidated push-car which had been a part of the cannery equipment—it would be possible to save much time ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... come. I figure it as one would see it at night, a band a hundred yards perhaps in width, the footpath on either side shaded with high trees and lit softly with orange glowlights; while down the centre the tramway of the road will go, with sometimes a nocturnal tram-car gliding, lit and gay but almost noiselessly, past. Lantern-lit cyclists will flit along the track like fireflies, and ever and again some humming motor-car will hurry by, to or from the Rhoneland or the Rhineland or Switzerland or Italy. ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... the other side of the road," cried Malcom, "and hear the buzzing of the wires! an electric tramway! Here meet the ...
— Barbara's Heritage - Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters • Deristhe L. Hoyt

... had watched the building and rigging day by day, in Choke Gulch, the sight of the shed made the people almost hysterical, as though they had never seen the "plant" of the Canaan Mining and Development Company before, the shack office, the tool-house, the big proud mill shed, the tramway, the hoister. There was a group already ranged at the door of the engine-room as the people came on. Bruce Steering and his wife, Old Bernique, and the tramp-boy were in the ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young

... the usual practice of marking off the sheet with a chalk line, and then dressing off with hand knives. The last length of the mill table forms a weighbridge, and a hydraulic crane lifts the sheet from it either on to the warehouse floor or the tramway ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various


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