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trolley
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trolley: see streetcar streetcar, small, self-propelled railroad car, similar to the type used in rapid-transit systems, that operates on tracks running through city streets and is used to carry passengers.
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trolley
1. Brit (in a hospital) a bed mounted on casters and used for moving patients who are unconscious, immobilized, etc.
2. a device that collects the current from an overhead wire (trolley wire), third rail, etc., to drive the motor of an electric vehicle
3. a pulley or truck that travels along an overhead wire in order to support a suspended load
4. Chiefly Brit a low truck running on rails, used in factories, mines, etc., and on railways
trolley [′träl·ē]
(geology)
A basin-shaped depression in strata. Also known as lum.
(mechanical engineering)
A wheeled car running on an overhead track, rail, or ropeway.
An electric streetcar.
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Perhaps she's met a long-lost crony, And stands chatting under "Macaroni" Maybe with trolley full of goods, She lingers by the "Asian Foods", Or are the whirling trolley wheels, Now passing by the "Ready Meals"?
Reader's Poem by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
8kgs, our travel bag has twin trolley wheels, a retractable telescopic handle and a generous main compartment.
Reader Offer by The Mirror (London, England)
We already have the magnetic strip at the edge of the car park which immobilises the trolley wheels and we will continue to try more ways to guard against the theft of the trolleys.
People power forces U-turn over the one-pound trolleys; Supermarket ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
 
 
 
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