† stud-linen.Obsolete a tramway in which power is supplied to the trams by means of electrical contacts set at regular intervals into the surface of the road; = stud tramwayn.; cf. sense 7e.
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1901 Engineer 1 Nov. 446/1 A contact-stud line, as in Munich.]
1903 Pract. Engineer 29 May 506/2 There is at present an attempt being made to get a stud line put down in London.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 3/2 This particular form of the stud-line is..being tried for the first time.