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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pram
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
push
▪ She approached the slope pushing a doll's pram full of dolls and blankets.
▪ An old woman in tattered clothes walked down the street pushing a dilapidated pram.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I've got a pram in the back of the shop.
▪ As this was also unsuccessful, she thought again and then emptied the pram of its contents.
▪ Frantically - but much too late - she ran in chase of the pram.
▪ Many have prams attached to accommodate babies.
▪ Pushchairs and prams are not admitted - backpacks available.
▪ She hit him so savagely that a woman with a pram told her to calm down.
▪ The artefacts he'd collected were everywhere and the cellar was full of old toys and Victorian prams.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pram

Perambulator \Per*am"bu*la`tor\, n.

  1. One who perambulates.

  2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

  3. A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing; a baby carriage; -- called also pram, in Britain.

pram

Praam \Praam\, n. [D. praam; cf. G. prahm, F. prame; all of Slavonic origin, from a word akin to E. fare. See Fare.] (Naut.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. [Written also pram, and prame.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pram

"baby carriage," 1881, shortening of perambulator, perhaps influenced by pram "flat-bottomed boat" especially a type used in the Baltic (1540s), from Old Norse pramr, from Balto-Slavic (compare Polish prom, Russian poromu "ferryboat," Czech pram "raft"), from PIE *pro-, from root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).

Wiktionary
pram

Etymology 1 n. (context UK Australia New Zealand English) A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. Etymology 2

alt. 1 (context nautical historical English) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. 2 (context nautical historical English) A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. 3 A type of dinghy with a flat bow. n. 1 (context nautical historical English) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. 2 (context nautical historical English) A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. 3 A type of dinghy with a flat bow.

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WordNet
pram

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

Wikipedia
Pram (band)

Pram are a British experimental pop band, formed in the Balsall Heath/Moseley area of Birmingham, England in 1990.

Pram

Pram or PRAM may refer to:

  • Pram, Austria
  • Pram (band), a musical group
  • Pram (ship), a type of shallow-draught, flat-bottomed ship (large watercraft)
  • Pram, a type of dinghy (small watercraft) with a flat bow
  • Pram, a type of wheeled baby transport
  • Pram, a character in the video game Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome
  • Parallel random access machine, an abstract computer for designing parallel algorithms
  • Phase-change RAM, a chalcogenide glass type of non-volatile random access memory
  • Parameter RAM, an area of non-volatile random access memory used to store system settings on Apple Macintosh Computers
  • nickname for the Optimist (dinghy)
Pram (ship)

A pram or pramm describes a type of shallow-draught flat-bottomed ship.

They were used in Europe during the 18th century, particularly in the Baltic Sea during the Great Northern War and Napoleonic Wars, as the pram's shallow draught allowed it to approach the shore. They typically carried 10-20 guns on one gun deck, and had either two or three masts. They were the kind of transport Napoleon would have used to cross the English channel.

More commonly today "pram" refers to a small utility dinghy with a transom bow rather than a pointed bow. This type of pram provides a more efficient use of space than does a traditional skiff of the same size. Modern prams are often 8 to 10 feet long and built of plywood, fibreglass, plastic or aluminum.

The Mirror and Optimist sailboats are examples of this form. Other prams are usually oar powered.

The Norwegian pram is commonly made of solid timber with lots of fore and aft rocker with a U shape cross section. In New Zealand and Australia the most common pram is an arc or v bottom rowboat commonly made of 6mm marine plywood often sealed with paint and/or epoxy resin.

In the past such boats were often used as a tender; today small inflatable crafts are more frequently used for this purpose instead.

Category:Ship types

Pram (boat)

Pram refers to a small utility dinghy with a transom bow rather than a pointed bow. This type of pram provides a more efficient use of space than does a traditional skiff of the same size. The Mirror and Optimist sailboats are examples of this form. Modern prams are often 8 to 10 feet long and built of plywood, fibreglass, plastic or aluminum. They are usually oar powered. The Norwegian pram is commonly made of solid timber with lots of fore and aft rocker with a U shape cross section. In New Zealand and Australia the most common pram is an arc or v bottom rowboat commonly made of 6mm marine plywood often sealed with paint and/or epoxy resin. In the past often used as a tender today it has been replaced in this role by the small inflatable.

Category:Dinghies

Usage examples of "pram".

A clothes airer stacked with damp washing, a pram and a bed were crammed up against a cot from which he swiftly averted his attention.

Roman Emperor, or even the whole lot, lay in his lavish silvery pram in the kitchen, looking remarkably like a very soft, very large apple dumpling that has been slightly over-boiled.

No longer were spare corners filled with prams, cartons of disposable nappies and the other impedimenta of babyhood.

Frantically he gasped and retched then he blundered across the floor, collided with the pram wheels and fell on his side.

Hannah unpacked, tucked little Paul into his pram and strolled round the garden with Henrika and Mevrouw van Eysink until a sudden darkening of the skies sent them indoors.

She and Pip and Daisy had gone into the shop, which sold bicycles, tyres, pumps, bells, hooters, torches, toys, prams, and many other things.

Slowly criss-crossed by parkies and prams under the blank sheet of the sky, the green stretch turned milky and alkaline, like a lake, in the neutral afternoon.

Chinese and Malay amahs, Koepanger houseboys or Japanese house staff watched over the young children or pushed babies in high-wheeled English prams.

As the car moved away a pram, several suitcases and a cot swayed perilously on the roof, the children yelled, the dogs barked, the baby bawled, then they were gone.

One hundred yards away down the stone terrace, in a three-walled wasteland peopled by destitute furniture and mangled prams, Jock and Trev crouch opposite one another, panting with cunning and gurgling with adrenalin and drink.

In every case I found below-decks cruses of corn-brandy, marked “aquavit,” two of which I took into the pram.

And now the cause of the mess, leaning over the hood of my pram to chuck me under the chin: Adi Dubash, the physicist, genius of atoms and litter.

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glow like lighting rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut .

So it started walking, first lumbering like Mickie and, like Mickie perhaps, hoping very much for the chance collision that would change his life but, in its despair, running at full gallop, and Heaven alone knew where it would finish up or at what speed, or what collateral damage it might cause before it stopped, or whether by some freak of German over-engineering the pram sequence from some Russian film that Pendel had forgotten the name of had been programmed into one of its sealed units.

Old men in homburgs, young women with prams, intense young men in dark wool sweaters, a sausage vendor with cheeks like ripe peaches.