tramwayn.

Brit.

/ˈtramweɪ/, U.S.

/ˈtræmˌweɪ/

Etymology: < tram n.² + way n.¹ and int.¹: compare tram-road n., and railroad, railway.

a. A track of parallel rails (originally flat planks of wood, afterwards lengths of stone or plates of iron), forming wheel-tracks for vehicles; a tram-road.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun]

tram-road1800

timber-road1803

tramway1825

tram1850

trackway1858

1825 E. Mackenzie Hist. View Northumberland I. 147 (note) From recent experiments..it has been ascertained that upon an edge-railway one horse can work with a much greater load..than upon a tram-way.

1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 73 (title) Stone tramway in the Commercial Road... Tramway..has been hitherto generally used to designate that description of iron railway in which flat rails or tram-plates level with the ground are employed.

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 33/2 Stone tramways consist of wheel-tracks formed of large blocks of stone, usually granite, the surface of which is made so smooth as to offer very little resistance to the rolling of the wheels.

1846 R. Ritchie Railways 12 Tracks of continuous stone rails... In London..such tramways for short distances have long been in general use.

1854 W. H. D. Longstaffe Hist. Darlington 359 Wooden tramways still continued to be used..to almost our own day.

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 201 The adoption of tramways all round the quays.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 88 He [Trevithick] had the wooden tramway taken up in 1808, and a plate-way of cast iron laid down instead.

1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 449 The ore is delivered by cars on a tramway, the descending car drawing up the empty one.

b. Now spec. A track with rails flush with the road surface, laid in a street or road, on which tram-cars are run, for the conveyance of passengers. (For the distinction between tramway and tram-road in parliamentary language, see quot. 1901.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > for tramcars

street railway1828

tramway1860

tramline1886

trolley-road1895

beltline1898

1860 G. F. Train Observ. Street Railw. 3 I was surprized to find the progress made [in U.S.] in what the Americans term Street Railways, [and] the English tram~ways.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 272 So early as 1801, Rennie reported upon the project of an iron rail or tramway between the east and west ends of London.

1864 G. M. Musgrave Ten Days in Fr. Parsonage I. i. 31 We still travel [more cheaply] on the French tramway.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Sept. 4/1 The first long electric tramway in the world will be opened to-day in county Antrim... The Portrush electric tramway.

1901 Standing Orders Ho. Lords, Priv. Bills 7 In these Orders..the term ‘tramway’ means a tramway laid along a street or road; the term ‘tramroad’ means a tramway laid elsewhere than along a street or road.

1911 Edinb. Rev. July 52 Tramways pulse and jingle over the old Tournai Causeway.

2. transferred. A cable or system of cables on which suspended cars travel. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle travelling on or by cable > [noun] > cableway or cable railway

rope-way1665

aerial railway1839

rope railway1849

tramway1872

funicular railway1874

suspension-railway1875

cable-road1882

telpher line1884

cable-railroad1887

cable-railway1887

cable tramway1887

funiculaire1888

funicular1888

cable-way1899

aerial tramway1904

blondin1906

teleferic1916

mono-cable1922

téléphérique1922

Seilbahn1963

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 318 The tram-way consists of two wire cables, each of which is six-tenths of an inch in diameter, extending from the lower adit on the Stevens lode to the base of the hill... All the ore will be sent to the base of the mountain by the tram-way.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tramway car, tramway company, tramway draught (draught n. 1), tramway driver, tramway man.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > tramcar

streetcar1832

road car1834

tram-carriage1868

tramway car1872

tram-car1873

surface car1879

tram1879

car1890

railbus1932

1872 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 359 Asphalte pavements and tramway cars are modern blessings.

1874 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 454 In the great suburban boulevards the tramway-cars make locomotion alike swift, cheap, nasty, and dangerous.

1877 C. E. Gordon Let. 19 Nov. in Pearson's Catal. (1888) 17 Camels will do well enough for tramway draughts.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Sept. 11/1 The concession allotted to the so-called tramway steamers [at Venice] is given for five years' time.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 6/2 He had always advocated fair play in dealing with the Tramway Companies.

1897 Daily News 7 Apr. 2/2 The tramway men themselves did not desire their hours and wages altered.

1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf i Down one of whose funnels, they say, two tramway cars can run abreast.

C2.

tramway plate n. a plate-rail, = tram-plate n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > rail

rail?1608

turn-plate1797

gully1800

plate rail1801

plate1807

tram-plate1807

tramway plate1825

track-rail1877

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 644 Bars of cast iron..known..by the denomination of the plate-rail, tram~way plate, barrow-way plate... The first we shall distinguish by the name of the edge railway; the second, by that of the plate railway.

tramway terms n. the terms on which a municipality is legally able to acquire an existing tramway belonging to a private firm or company: see quot. 1902.

ΚΠ

1902 A. Chamberlain in Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 8/7 Right to purchase..plant..useful for Post Office purposes on what are commonly known as ‘tramway terms’—that is, at its fair market value as plant in use.

Derivatives

ˈtramway v. (transitive) to furnish with a tramway; intransitive to travel by a tramway or tram.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > travel on (public vehicle) [verb (intransitive)] > travel by tramcar

tram1826

tramway1871

1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. iv. 24 The roads themselves beautifully public-tramwayed perhaps—and with gates set open enough for all men.

1900 N. Brit. Daily Mail 13 Feb. 4 Happy the man..who can exchange the dull prose of walking or of tramwaying for the poetry of motion..in..skating.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tramway
释义	tramwayn. Brit. /ˈtramweɪ/, U.S. /ˈtræmˌweɪ/ Etymology: < tram n.² + way n.¹ and int.¹: compare tram-road n., and railroad, railway. 1. a. A track of parallel rails (originally flat planks of wood, afterwards lengths of stone or plates of iron), forming wheel-tracks for vehicles; a tram-road. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] tram-road1800 timber-road1803 tramway1825 tram1850 trackway1858 1825 E. Mackenzie Hist. View Northumberland I. 147 (note) From recent experiments..it has been ascertained that upon an edge-railway one horse can work with a much greater load..than upon a tram-way. 1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 73 (title) Stone tramway in the Commercial Road... Tramway..has been hitherto generally used to designate that description of iron railway in which flat rails or tram-plates level with the ground are employed. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 33/2 Stone tramways consist of wheel-tracks formed of large blocks of stone, usually granite, the surface of which is made so smooth as to offer very little resistance to the rolling of the wheels. 1846 R. Ritchie Railways 12 Tracks of continuous stone rails... In London..such tramways for short distances have long been in general use. 1854 W. H. D. Longstaffe Hist. Darlington 359 Wooden tramways still continued to be used..to almost our own day. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 201 The adoption of tramways all round the quays. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 88 He [Trevithick] had the wooden tramway taken up in 1808, and a plate-way of cast iron laid down instead. 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 449 The ore is delivered by cars on a tramway, the descending car drawing up the empty one. b. Now spec. A track with rails flush with the road surface, laid in a street or road, on which tram-cars are run, for the conveyance of passengers. (For the distinction between tramway and tram-road in parliamentary language, see quot. 1901.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > for tramcars street railway1828 tramway1860 tramline1886 trolley-road1895 beltline1898 1860 G. F. Train Observ. Street Railw. 3 I was surprized to find the progress made [in U.S.] in what the Americans term Street Railways, [and] the English tram~ways. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 272 So early as 1801, Rennie reported upon the project of an iron rail or tramway between the east and west ends of London. 1864 G. M. Musgrave Ten Days in Fr. Parsonage I. i. 31 We still travel [more cheaply] on the French tramway. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Sept. 4/1 The first long electric tramway in the world will be opened to-day in county Antrim... The Portrush electric tramway. 1901 Standing Orders Ho. Lords, Priv. Bills 7 In these Orders..the term ‘tramway’ means a tramway laid along a street or road; the term ‘tramroad’ means a tramway laid elsewhere than along a street or road. 1911 Edinb. Rev. July 52 Tramways pulse and jingle over the old Tournai Causeway. 2. transferred. A cable or system of cables on which suspended cars travel. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle travelling on or by cable > [noun] > cableway or cable railway rope-way1665 aerial railway1839 rope railway1849 tramway1872 funicular railway1874 suspension-railway1875 cable-road1882 telpher line1884 cable-railroad1887 cable-railway1887 cable tramway1887 funiculaire1888 funicular1888 cable-way1899 aerial tramway1904 blondin1906 teleferic1916 mono-cable1922 téléphérique1922 Seilbahn1963 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 318 The tram-way consists of two wire cables, each of which is six-tenths of an inch in diameter, extending from the lower adit on the Stevens lode to the base of the hill... All the ore will be sent to the base of the mountain by the tram-way. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tramway car, tramway company, tramway draught (draught n. 1), tramway driver, tramway man. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > tramcar streetcar1832 road car1834 tram-carriage1868 tramway car1872 tram-car1873 surface car1879 tram1879 car1890 railbus1932 1872 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 359 Asphalte pavements and tramway cars are modern blessings. 1874 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 454 In the great suburban boulevards the tramway-cars make locomotion alike swift, cheap, nasty, and dangerous. 1877 C. E. Gordon Let. 19 Nov. in Pearson's Catal. (1888) 17 Camels will do well enough for tramway draughts. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Sept. 11/1 The concession allotted to the so-called tramway steamers [at Venice] is given for five years' time. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 6/2 He had always advocated fair play in dealing with the Tramway Companies. 1897 Daily News 7 Apr. 2/2 The tramway men themselves did not desire their hours and wages altered. 1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf i Down one of whose funnels, they say, two tramway cars can run abreast. C2. tramway plate n. a plate-rail, = tram-plate n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > rail rail?1608 turn-plate1797 gully1800 plate rail1801 plate1807 tram-plate1807 tramway plate1825 track-rail1877 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 644 Bars of cast iron..known..by the denomination of the plate-rail, tram~way plate, barrow-way plate... The first we shall distinguish by the name of the edge railway; the second, by that of the plate railway. tramway terms n. the terms on which a municipality is legally able to acquire an existing tramway belonging to a private firm or company: see quot. 1902. ΚΠ 1902 A. Chamberlain in Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 8/7 Right to purchase..plant..useful for Post Office purposes on what are commonly known as ‘tramway terms’—that is, at its fair market value as plant in use. Derivatives ˈtramway v. (transitive) to furnish with a tramway; intransitive to travel by a tramway or tram. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > travel on (public vehicle) [verb (intransitive)] > travel by tramcar tram1826 tramway1871 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. iv. 24 The roads themselves beautifully public-tramwayed perhaps—and with gates set open enough for all men. 1900 N. Brit. Daily Mail 13 Feb. 4 Happy the man..who can exchange the dull prose of walking or of tramwaying for the poetry of motion..in..skating. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825
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