streetage (stretaj)

[ .. The street-cars rattled in the foreground, changing horses and absorbing and emitting pa engers. H. James, Jr., The Boston i ans, xxxiv. street-door (strēt'dōr), n . The door of a house or other building which opens upon a street. When you step but a few doors off. to see a brother footman going to be hanged, leave the street door open. Swift , Advice to Servants (Footman). streeted (strēʻted), a . Provided with streets. There are few Places this Side the Alps better built, and so well streeted as this [Antwerp). Howell, Letters, I. i. 12. street-locomotive (strētʼlō kō-mō-tiv), n. See locomotive . street-orderly (strētʼôrder-li), n. A person employed to keep the streets clean by the prompt removal of rubbish, dung, or dirt of any kind by means of a hand-brush and bag. By the street- orderly method of scavaging, the thoroughfares are continually being cleansed, and so never allowed to become dirty; whereas, by the ordinary method, they are not cleansed until they are dirty. A railroad Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 257. street-railroad (strēt'rālrōd), n. constructed upon the surface of a public street in towns and cities; a tramway. Cars on such rail cind names from the system of propulsion, as cable sou roads variously propelled, and the railroads take spe road, horse- railroad, electric railroad. [U. S.]