Definition of "tramway" [tram•way]

• A track or way for trams, as in a mine. (noun)
• Chiefly British A streetcar line. (noun)
• A cable or system of cables for a cable car. (noun)

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• "I sat back down defiantly, picked up my blue pencil, and circled the word tramway."
• "An elevated tramway is built from the town to Victoria Gap, 1,100 feet above the sea."
• "Beyond the tramway was a grove of yellow-looking firs; beyond the grove a range of white houses with blue roofs, occupied, I suppose, by miners and their families; and beyond these"