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noun

Trolly, Trolley n.

A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. (Eng.)

A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. (Eng.)

(Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

(Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

A trolley car.

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Etymology of 'Trolley'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trolley" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Electrical Engineers: Frank Julian Sprague, consulting engineer for Sprague, Otis, and General Electric Companies and concerned in the establishment of the first electrical trolley systems in this country. B. G. Lamme, chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company ...

— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry

... party," returned the young man, "will catch the next trolley for New York. Oh! Here labors the trusty henchman across the green. Right you are, Jim! No, the lady is not to come down. I'm to go up." And go up he did, in the twinkling of an eye, and in less than another ...

— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various

... sighed as she went out to the street, "I think this goin' to Greenwald to the store is vonderful nice! It's most as much fun as goin' in to Lancaster, only there I go in a trolley and I see black niggers"—she spoke the word with a little shiver, for Greenwald had no negro residents—"and once in there me and Aunt Maria saw a Chinaman with a long plait like a ...

— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers

... prospered, and become what the local press described as "prominent." He was attached to his ugly brick house with sandstone trimmings and a cast-iron area-railing neatly sanded to match; to the similar row of houses across the street, the "trolley" wires forming a kind of aerial pathway between, and the sprawling vista closed by the steeple of the church which he and his wife had always attended, and where their only ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

... Christmas cards that will express something of the entrancing color and circumstance that surround us to-day. Is not a commuter's train, stalled in a drift, far more lively to our hearts than the mythical stage-coach? Or an inter-urban trolley winging its way through the dusk like a casket of golden light? Or even a country flivver, loaded down with parcels and holly and the Yuletide keg of root beer? Root beer may be but meager flaggonage compared to mulled claret, but at any rate 'tis honest, 'tis actual, 'tis tangible ...

— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

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