tramp late (tramplat)

A flat iron plate laid as a rail: the earliest form of rail for railways. trample (tram'pl), v.; pret. and pp. trampled, ppr. trampling. [ But that Humane and Diuine learning is now trampled vnder the barbarous foote of the Ottoman-Horse. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 320. Was it not enough for thee to stoop so low for our sakes, but that thou shouldst be trampled on because thou didst Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. vi. Squadrons of the Prince, trampling the flowers. Tennyson, Prinee , v. it? IMG:content-0721.png:[blocks in formation] ed at first of trams of wood or flat stones, at a later period of wooden stringers covered with strap-iron, and lastly of iron rails. The first tramways were simply rude horse railroads for the transportation of heavy freight. The term is now applied to all kinds of street-railroads, wheBritain.) ther using engines, horses, a cable, or electricity. [Great smelting them framing furnaces are the centre of activity, and to trucks loaded with materials. Edinburgh Rev. , CXVII. 211. tram-wheel (tram'hwel), n. The form of light, flanged, metallic wheel usual on tram-cars. Tram-wheel.