Crossword clues for trolley
trolley
- Streetcar of yore
- San Francisco conveyance
- Wheeled handcart
- Vehicle associated with tracks
- Toonerville transport
- Tea caddy
- Street clanger of yore
- Shopping container
- Restaurant server
- Relative of a pantograph
- One-time streetcar
- Off one's ____: daft
- Handcart that holds groceries etc while shopping
- Dessert cart
- Conveyance on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"
- Bus's kin
- Brooklyn streetcar, once
- "Desire," e.g
- Track runner
- A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
- Off one's ___ (loco)
- Londoner's tea cart
- "Desire," e.g.
- Bus's victim
- Wheeled cart
- Wheeled basket
- Supermarket vehicle
- Hospital bed on wheels
- Dolly left the French in Ilium
- Tramcar to move, although upset about it
- Tiger gutted over short 19 5 round: something on fairway?
- Mine car
- Street car
- San Francisco transportation
- Supermarket cart
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trolley \Trol"ley\, Trolly \Trol"ly\, n.
A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [Eng.]
A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.]
(Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
(Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
A trolley car.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, in Suffolk dialect, "a cart," especially one with wheels flanged for running on a track (1858), probably from troll (v.) in the sense of "to roll." Sense transferred to "device used to transmit electric current to streetcars, consisting of a trolley wheel which makes contact with the overhead wires" (1888), then "streetcar drawing power by a trolley" (1891), which probably is short for trolley-car, attested from 1889.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Australian New Zealand British English) A cart or shopping cart. 2 (context British English) A hand truck. 3 (context British English) A Soapbox (car). 4 (context British English) A gurney. 5 A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar. 6 (context US English) A streetcar or a system of streetcars. 7 (context US colloquial English) A light rail system or a train on such a system. 8 A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 9 A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. vb. 1 To bring to by trolley. 2 To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
WordNet
n. a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity; "`tram' and `tramcar' are British terms" [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car]
Wikipedia
Trolley may refer to:
Among horse-drawn vehicles, a trolley was a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage. The wheels were rather larger and the deck proportionately higher than those of a lorry. A large trolley is likely to have had a headboard with the driver's seat on it, as on a lorry but a smaller trolley may have had a box at the front of the deck or the driver seated on a corner of the deck and his feet on a shaft. With a very small trolley, the 'driver' may even have led the horse as a pedestrian. They were normally drawn by a single pony or horse but a large trolley would have a pair.
It was primarily an urban vehicle so that, on the paved roads, the small wheels were not a handicap. In any case, the axles would normally be sprung. It was typically used by market fruiterers and greengrocers but commonly also by coal merchants. These would have a headboard to stabilize the front row of sacks which then held up the next and so on. The deck was at a good height for taking the bags onto the coalman's back and there was no protruding rear wheel to obstruct his access to them.
Many ended up with rag and bone merchants who were likely to add side and tail boards to keep their purchases aboard.
The largest and sturdiest trolleys were those used with lift vans.
As in many fields, as time went by, people used the word without understanding its detailed meaning so that it became applied less precisely and other configurations were given the name and some trolleys were known by other names. For example, the electric milk float is more a trolley than a float, as is the brewer's 'dray' seen at horse shows.
Trolley is a light rail station in the Central City neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States serviced by the Red Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX light rail system. The Red Line provides service from the University of Utah to the Daybreak Community of South Jordan.
Usage examples of "trolley".
X-ray people messed about with him of course, and the orderly in the ward probably helped Esther get him on the trolley, and things like that, but it was only sort of last-minute things.
As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution.
Those in pressing need of velocity and noise used the trolleys, numberless and variegated, queueing and charging along the wide central lanes in vaporous, indocile packs.
With the aid of a trolley I could have unloaded the whole lot, on my own, in about ten minutes.
Sunday afternoons now that the weather is good Alphonse takes the trolley to Ely with one of the two dimes he keeps from his pay packet.
Alphonse ride in silence and Alphonse watches the people getting on and off the trolley, more getting off than on as they travel farther and farther west.
He says Henry by this time is checking out the bill down at his vaudeville house or packing up the film from the movie palace and putting it on the trolley where it will go on the beltline to Buffalo to be replaced by a new film.
The river and the trolley run side by side the whole charming way, and, as you near Elmira, you come upon latticed barns that waft you the fragrance of drying tobacco-leaves, suspended longitudinally for the wind to play through.
The discussion was not long, and it was brought to a cheerful, demoralized end by the approach of the trolley, into which, regardless of right or wrong, we climbed with alacrity, not to alight till not only Elmira was left behind, but more weary suburbs, too, on the other side.
In enters a female grandmother hobgoblin, almost bent double with age, covered from head to foot in tattered and dirty Lapp gear, none of the brightly coloured clothes that we had seen pushing supermarket trolleys some time past: a national costume in the raw.
X-ray people messed about with him of course, and the orderly in the ward probably helped Esther get him on the trolley, and things like that, but it was only sort of last-minute things.
The motorman of the trolley car had neglected his duty and joined a gaping crowd at a corner.
Lynch looked towards Paddy Holland who was standing by the paediatric resuscitation trolley.
Hermione returned from the trolley and put her money back into her schoolbag, she dislodged a copy of the Daily Prophet that she had been carrying in there.
I, as a child, imagined as the sound of the Toonerville Trolley clattering downhill.