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Traditional English :: tram(1)
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tramslate.html - n. 1 Brit. an electrically-powered passenger vehicle running on rails laid in a public road. 2 a four-wheeled vehicle used in coal-mines. tram-road hist. a road with wooden, stone, or metal wheel-tracks. [MLG & MDu. trame balk, beam, barrow-shaft] |
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Traditional English :: tram(2)
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tramslate.html - n. (in full tram silk) double silk thread used for the weft of some velvets and silks. [F trame f. L trama weft] |
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Traditional English :: tramcar
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tramslate.html - n.
Brit. = TRAM(1) 1. |
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Traditional English :: tramlines
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tramslate.html - n.pl. 1 rails for a tramcar. 2 colloq. a either pair of two sets of long parallel lines at the sides of a lawn-tennis court. b similar lines at the side or back of a badminton court. 3 inflexible principles or courses of action etc. |
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Traditional English :: trammel
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tramslate.html - n. & v. --n. 1 (usu. in pl.) an impediment to free movement; a hindrance (the trammels of domesticity).
2 a triple drag-net for fish, which are trapped in a pocket formed when they attempt to swim through.
3 an instrument for drawing ellipses etc. with a bar sliding in upright grooves.
4 a beam-compass.
5 US a hook in a fireplace for a kettle etc. --v.tr. (trammelled, trammelling; US trammeled, trammeling) confine or hamper with or as if with trammels. [in sense 'net' ME f. OF tramail f. med.L tramaculum, tremaculum, perh. formed as TRI- + macula (MAIL(2)): later history uncert.] |
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Traditional English :: tramontana
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tramslate.html - n.
a cold north wind in the Adriatic. [It.: see TRAMONTANE] |
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