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trolleys

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trol·ley also trol·ly  (trl)
n. pl. trol·leys also trol·lies
1. A streetcar.
2. A device that collects electric current from an underground conductor, an overhead wire, or a third rail and transmits it to the motor of an electric vehicle.
3. A small truck or car operating on a track and used in a mine, quarry, or factory for conveying materials.
4. A wheeled carriage, cage, or basket that is suspended from and travels on an overhead track.
5. Chiefly British A cart.
tr. & intr.v. trol·leyed also trol·lied (-ld), trol·ley·ing also trol·ly·ing, trol·leys also trol·lies (-lz)
To convey (passengers) or travel by trolley.
[Probably from troll.]
trolleys [ˈtrɒlɪz]
pl n
(Clothing & Fashion) Slang men's underpants


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Then he showed them the wards one after another, the storeroom, the linen room, then the heating stove of a new pattern, then the trolleys, which would make no noise as they carried everything needed along the corridors, and many other things.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The motor-cars that went by northward and southward grew more and more powerful and efficient, whizzed faster and smelt worse, there appeared great clangorous petrol trolleys delivering coal and parcels in the place of vanishing horse-vans, motor-omnibuses ousted the horse-omnibuses, even the Kentish strawberries going Londonward in the night took to machinery and clattered instead of creaking, and became affected in flavour by progress and petrol.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
Evidently it had arrived on the scene in the nick of time-- after the telegraph and before the trolleys and electric lights.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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