Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tram

(A). A car which runs on a tramway (q.v.). Trams in collieries were in use in the seventeenth century, but were not introduced into our streets till 1868.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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