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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perambulator
noun
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▪ Harper found lace perambulator covers that made perfect tops for the women, and printed silk jersey for church dresses.
▪ Margarett walked the baby in a perambulator until she saw the police leave the building hours later.
▪ Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
▪ When again I passed through the foyer that day, the perambulator was gone, of course.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
perambulator

Ambulator \Am"bu*la`tor\, n.

  1. One who walks about; a walker.

  2. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A beetle of the genus Lamia.

    2. A genus of birds, or one of this genus.

  3. An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator.
    --Knight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perambulator

1610s, "one who perambulates," agent noun in Latin form from perambulate. Sense of "baby carriage" is first recorded 1856; often colloquially shortened to pram.

Wiktionary
perambulator

n. 1 (context British English) A baby carriage; a pram. 2 One who perambulates. 3 A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.

WordNet
perambulator

n. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]

Wikipedia
Perambulator

Perambulator may refer to

  • a pram, a type of baby transport
  • a surveyor's wheel
See also
  • Perambulation (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "perambulator".

Motors and cycles he treated with tolerant disregard, but pigs, wheelbarrows, piles of stones by the roadside, perambulators in a village street, gates painted too aggressively white, and sometimes, but not always, the newer kind of beehives, turned him aside from his tracks in vivid imitation of the zigzag course of forked lightning.

Our theoretically restrained perambulator would be likely to respond by throwing off more frequent bursts of perturbating energy.

Certainly Francis De Brel and Jeanne Rousset did their best to help, and Pandora received at least one surprising gift an old perambulator which the Reverend Edward Beaufort had found in the attic of his rectory.

Half an hour later, after the children had been slowly fed, dutifully burped, and then returned to their perambulator, Paula went inside.

She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses.

I flew, in that sense of the term, and easily overhauled them in the tangle of people coming and going in the path, and the nursemaids pushing their perambulators in either direction.

There were a half-dozen or so nursemaids, pushing their perambulators about, or standing the vehicles across the walk in front of the benches where they sat, in the simple belief of all people who have to do with babies that the rest of the world may be fitly discommoded in their behalf.

A handsome British perambulator with a dark blue monogrammed cover came from the Bergs, along with a silver feeding set and an embroidered lace christening dress and, most thoughtfully, presents for Sue as well.

It suddenly struck Jon-Tom that having disposed of the perambulator and its perturbations, as well as having cured its captor, they now had to decide how to deal with an angry, intelligent, six-foot-tall wolverine with, so to speak, an ax to grind.

Three perambulators stood against the ticket office, the mothers collapsed beside them.

The babies in the perambulators would have drunk milk, not the deadly water.

I’ve defeated demons with powers beyond your comprehension, have freed wandering perambulators to cavort openly between the stars, have battled otherworldly sorcerers and whole armies of plated folk.

I haven’t spent a year battling perambulators and wizards and demons and pirates to end up in somebody’s cook pot.

Our theoretically restrained perambulator would be likely to respond by throwing off more frequent bursts of perturbating energy.

If the perambulator is not freed as soon as possible, the frequency of the resultant perturbations will increase and we run the risk of becoming encased in permanent change.