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trolley
| trolley car
| trolley coach
| trolley line
| trolley wire
| trolleybus
trolley
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trolley has 1 sense
- trolley(n = noun.artifact) streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car - a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity; Array has particulars: horsecar
is a kind of self-propelled vehicle
is a part of trolley line
CIDE DICTIONARY
trolley, n.
A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
trolley, n. (pl. -eys)
1 esp. Brit. a table, stand, or basket on wheels or castors for serving food, transporting luggage or shopping, gathering purchases in a supermarket, etc.
2 esp. Brit. a low truck running on rails.
3 (in full trolley-wheel) a wheel attached to a pole etc. used for collecting current from an overhead electric wire to drive a vehicle.
4 a US = trolley-car. b Brit. = trolley bus.
1 esp. Brit. a table, stand, or basket on wheels or castors for serving food, transporting luggage or shopping, gathering purchases in a supermarket, etc.
2 esp. Brit. a low truck running on rails.
3 (in full trolley-wheel) a wheel attached to a pole etc. used for collecting current from an overhead electric wire to drive a vehicle.
4 a US = trolley-car. b Brit. = trolley bus.
Idiom
trolley bus Brit. an electric bus running on the road and using a trolley-wheel. trolley-car US an electric tram using a trolley-wheel.
Etymology
of dial. orig., perh. f. TROLL(2)
ROGET THESAURUS
trolley
Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.
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