Definition of "tram" []

• Chiefly British A streetcar. (noun)
• Chiefly British A streetcar line. (noun)
• A cable car, especially one suspended from an overhead cable. (noun)
• A four-wheeled, open, box-shaped wagon or iron car run on tracks in a coal mine. (noun)
• To move or convey in a tram. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Sawmills had what they called tram roads, which runned manybe five or six miles down through the woods."
• "Note to anyone thinking about doing this hike: The tram is closed on Sundays."
• "A better description of the tram is one of the several irons around the ankle of OHSU that prevents it from escaping the red."