2. Verb. (third-person singular of trolley) ¹
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Definition of Trolleys
1. trolley [v] - See also: trolley
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trolleys
Literary usage of Trolleys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"While a so-called "Ariel swing," operated by electricity, was being run at night,
the trolleys, by which it was lighted, and which were worn and likely to ..."
2. Scarborough's Official Tour Book by New York State Automobile Association (1918)
"Granite-block pavement to mileage 11 0.9 Pick up and follow trolleys one long
... 2.1 On coming to trolleys turn left onto First St. for two blocks then at ..."
3. Electrical Engineer (1892)
"Assuming that current taken up by the forward trolleys is being passed through
... Its forward motion speedily carries the forward trolleys towards the next ..."
4. Handbook of Mechanical and Electrical Cost Data: Giving Shipping Weights by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1918)
"F. Two trolleys — feeder span construction — one iron and one G. Two trolleys
... Two trolleys — section insulators — span construction — two K. One trolley ..."
5. A Treatise on Cranes by Henry Robinson Towne (1883)
"trolleys AND TRUCKS. The trolley of a crane is the movable carriage from which
the load is immediately suspended and by which longitudinal motion of the ..."
6. A Treatise on Cranes by Henry Robinson Towne (1883)
"trolleys AND TRUCKS. The trolley of a crane is the movable carriage ... it is
usually possible so to arrange the parts of trolleys and trucks as to use cast ..."
7. Electric Street Railways by Edwin James Houston, Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1906)
"trolleys. THE existing system of trolleys and trolley wires for street railway
cars, simple as it seems, has, nevertheless, been the outcome of no little ..."
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