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Trolley car   /trˈɑli kɑr/   Listen
Trolley car

noun
1.
A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity.  Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley.






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"Trolley car" Quotes from Famous Books



... birthday, the school furnace needed immediate repair, and the session came to an early close. It had been arranged for Polly to ride home with Leonora; but as the carriage was not there they took a trolley car, Leonora not being yet quite strong enough for so ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd

... favor of such a home library as this, may be added the fact that the books are of such a size that one can easily put a volume in his pocket when he is going on a train or in a trolley car. For busy men and women often the only time for reading is the time which too many of us are apt to waste in ...
— The Guide to Reading - The Pocket University Volume XXIII • Edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others

... The trolley car from Buffalo, bearing Frank Merriwell and his friends, was approaching Niagara Falls. The entire party was bubbling with that enthusiasm and eagerness felt by all "sightseers" who find themselves drawing ...
— Frank Merriwell's Pursuit - How to Win • Burt L. Standish

... to market much more cheaply and quickly than horses and macadam ever did. In cities, electromobile cabs and vans steadily increase in numbers, furthering the quiet and cleanliness introduced by the trolley car. ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... breath in, and another place to let the air out and so on, until he had a very fine whistle indeed, almost as loud-blowing as those the policemen have to stop the automobiles from splashing mud on you so a trolley car can bump ...
— Uncle Wiggily in the Woods • Howard R. Garis


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