Definition of "street-car" [street-car]

• A passenger-car for local or city travel, drawn on the surface of the public streets by horses, by a locomotive engine, or by an endless cable, or propelled by electricity. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The street-car strike in San Francisco had been broken."
• "We still do it in the United States, when any stray Englishman comes along and calls an "elevator" a "lift" or a "street-car" a "tram"."
• "Senator Longbridge, for instance, and Claus Inskeep the street-car magnate, and Lane, and McChesney — He paused, with voice suspended."