Definition of Trolleys

1. Noun. (plural of trolley) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of trolley) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trolleys

1. trolley [v] - See also: trolley

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trolleys

trolley coach
trolley dash
trolley dashes
trolley dolly
trolley line
trolley park
trolley parks
trolley pole
trolleybus
trolleybuses
trolleybusses
trolleyed
trolleying
trolleylike
trolleyology
trolleys (current term)
trollied
trollies
trolling
trollings
trollish
trollishly
trollishness
trollmydames
trolloped
trollopee
trollopees
trollops
trollopy

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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