tramline
Americannoun
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a streetcar system.
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a streetcar route or track.
noun
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Also called: tramway. (often plural) the tracks on which a tram runs
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the route taken by a tram
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(often plural) the outer markings along the sides of a tennis or badminton court
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(plural) a set of guiding principles
Etymology
Origin of tramline
Example Sentences
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Then there is a massive shootout while Six is handcuffed to a bench, and an exciting, extended chase scene on a tramline that may be the film's pièce de résistance.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2022
As a child, Mr. Mancini, 56, lived in a tarpaper shack in No Cash, a nearby station for the mine’s tramline, before his family moved to Keno.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2017
Pisgat Ze’ev is the last stop on the Jerusalem tramline, Beit Hanina the second-to-last.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2017
In the fourth he broke Federer again with ease, hitting 12 winners, winning almost half the points when receiving, driving his man back, tugging him from tramline to tramline.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2015
BLOOM: What railway opera is like a tramline in Gibraltar?
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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