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(redirected from Street railroad)

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tram1
an electrically driven public transport vehicle that runs on rails let into the surface of the road, power usually being taken from an overhead wire
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tram2
Machinery a fine adjustment that ensures correct function or alignment
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tram3
(in weaving) a weft yarn of two or more twisted strands of silk
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It's a short stretch of road, but during any type of intense rainfall, the area under the Cambridge Street railroad overpass seldom fails to claim a victim.
I won't tax you with the hardest ones, such as Brazilian Portuguese bondes (where the financing of the street railroad got confused with the streetcars themselves) or Mexican calamazo (a bus such as manufactured in Kalamazoo) or Rebecca (South American Spanish, a cardigan sweater such as worn by the heroine of the film based on Dame Daphne DuMaurier's novel of the same name).
The existing $800,000 Agate Street railroad underpass is inadequate for use in a one-way arterial street.
 
 
 
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