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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 http://routesinternational.com/buslines.htm tram2 Machinery a fine adjustment that ensures correct function or alignment http://routesinternational.com/buslines.htm tram3 (in weaving) a weft yarn of two or more twisted strands of silk http://routesinternational.com/buslines.htm How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| " Here the noise and the word "tram" are both constituents of your belief; there is also a relation between them, expressed by "is" in the proposition "that is a tram. And so it was that I found myself that foggy November evening pursuing the Camberwell tram with my heart glowing within me, and with the eager determination that not another day should elapse before I should find some deed which was worthy of my lady. Dealtry, a fellow clerk, passed on, and Leonard stood wondering whether he would take the tram as far as a penny would take him, or whether he would walk. |
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