Tramroad
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tramroad is a noun meaning A road designed for use by trams or wagons.
Meaning
A road designed for use by trams or wagons.
Example Sentences
Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen.
It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
The company arranged for access to a Blackpool terminus […] over a street tramway to be constructed by, and leased for 21 years from, the Corporation. The distance between termini was about eight miles, of which 6 miles 22 ch. was to be tramroad on private right-of-way.
Word Forms
- tramroads
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tramway, tramrail, tramline, tram-train, tramshed, truckway.
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