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noun

Trolly, Trolley n.

A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. (Eng.)

A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. (Eng.)

(Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

(Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

A trolley car.

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Etymology of 'Trolley'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trolley" Quotes from Famous Books

... undershirts putterin' around lathes and things that whittled shavings off shiny steel bars, or hammered red-hot chunks of it into different shapes, or bit holes in great sheets of steel. I watched electric cranes the size of trolley cars juggle chunks of metal that weighed tons. I listened to the roar and rattle and crash and bang, and at the end of two hours my head was whirlin' as fast as some of them big belt wheels; and I knew almost as much about what I'd seen as a two-year-old does about the tick-tock ...

— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

... I say, Philip, where are we? Jim said we'd pass Little Falls, and then we must follow the trolley line all the way to the butter and egg house. ...

— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells

... Bunch, didn't you pipe me with the neck bruises often enough in the old days to profit by my experience? Didn't I go up against that horse game so hard that I shook the whole community, and aren't you on to the fact that the only sure thing about a race track is a seat on a trolley car ...

— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh

... Phelan, Rudolph Spreckels, son of the sugar nabob, and William J. Burns. Frank, who guessed he was intruding, made a noiseless exit; not, however, till he heard that there would be a thorough, secret search into the trolley franchise and some other actions of the Ruef administration. Spreckels and Phelan guaranteed to raise $100,000 for this purpose. Burns and his detectives had for several ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... Tom Betts, suddenly; "who are these men, anyway? P'raps we didn't size 'em up straight when we made up our minds they were bogus money-makers. Mebbe they happen to be a different sort of crowd altogether. How about that, Paul; am I off my trolley when ...

— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren

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