tramroad
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tramroad
Example Sentences
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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.
From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles
An English engineer offered to lay a tramroad across Siberia, after Muravieff had carried Russia to the Pacific by his brilliant annexation of the mouths of the Amur.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
Above it, on a tramroad supported by pillars, is a Chinese Enchanter’s Car, which fishes the logs up, when sufficiently steeped, and rolls smoothly away with them to stack them.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
The first iron tramroad from Croydon to Wandsworth was completed July 24th, 1801.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various
From the extremity of Long Bay, as the extension of the sea-arm was named, a convict-made tramroad ran due north, through the nearly impenetrable thicket to Norfolk Bay.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
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