tramroad
English
Etymology
tram + road
Noun
tramroad (plural tramroads)
- A road designed for use by trams or wagons.
- 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
- About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen.
- 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, page 248, column 1:
- It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
- 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 4:
- Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
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References
- “tram road”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.