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noun

Perambulator n.

One who perambulates.

A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing; a baby carriage; called also pram, in Britain.

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Etymology of 'Perambulator'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perambulator" Quotes from Famous Books

... investigated the supernatural topics of the day, and presented them to the world in his Miscellanies. Among these subjects it is interesting to notice "blows invisible," and "knockings," which have been resuscitated in the present day. He was a "perambulator," and, in the words of one of his critics, "picked up information on the highway, and scattered it everywhere as authentic." His most valuable contribution to history is found in his Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the 17th and 18th Centuries, with Lives of Eminent Men. The searcher ...

— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... farther window. She is very pale. There is something gentle and pain-touched about her, but her face shows an expression of deep contentment, which is broken only now and then by a momentary gleam of restlessness and suspense. A neat new perambulator stands by her side. In it lies a ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... provided you don't talk beforehand. In that case, you'd get there and back; after which, the Administration would label and index you. The remainder of your stay in Palestine would be about as exciting as pushing a perambulator in Prospect Park, ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... in more ways than one...It is all so hilarious, so high-spirited, so young and yet, my word! what a cult of official dignity underlying! I saw a staff-officer in full uniform, red and white feathers and all, going to the birthday dinner at the Viceroy's the other evening in a perambulator—rickshaw, you know, such as they have in Japan. That is typical of the place. All the honours and dignities—and a perambulator to put them in—or a ridiculous little white-washed house made of mud and tin, ...

— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... Ottley to Edith, 'not to let the darling catch cold in his perambulator this weather. ...

— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson

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