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¹tram

noun \ˈtram\

: a vehicle that runs on a track or on rails and that is usually used to carry groups of people for a short distance

Full Definition of TRAM

: any of various vehicles: as

a : a boxlike wagon running on rails (as in a mine)

b chiefly British : streetcar

c : a carrier that travels on an overhead cable or rails

plural chiefly British : a streetcar line

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Origin of TRAM

English dialect, shaft of a wheelbarrow, probably from Low German traam, literally, beam

First Known Use: circa 1517

Rhymes with TRAM

bam, cam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, DRAM, flam, gam, gram, ham, Ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, ma'am, pram, ram, RAM, Sam, SAM, scam, scram, sham, slam, spam, tam, wham, yam

²tram

transitive verb

trammedtram·ming

Definition of TRAM

: to haul in a tram or over a tramway

First Known Use of TRAM

1874

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