Definitions for trolly

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trolly trol·ly

Spelling: [trol-ee]

IPA: /ˈtrɒl i/

Trolly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in trolly (llorty).

Definitions for trolly

noun

1. trolley.
2. trolley car.
3. a pulley or truck traveling on an overhead track and serving to support and move a suspended object.
4. a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole (trolley pole) by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire (trolley wire) from which it collects the current for the propulsion of the car or locomotive.
5. any of various devices for collecting current for such a purpose, as a pantograph, or a bowlike structure (bow trolley) sliding along an overhead wire, or a device (underground trolley) for taking current from the underground wire or conductor used by some electric railways.
6. a small truck or car operated on a track, as in a mine or factory.
7. a serving cart, as one used to serve desserts.
8. Chiefly British. any of various low carts or vehicles, as a railway handcar or costermonger's cart.

Idioms

1. off one's trolley, Slang. in a confused mental state. insane:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to convey or go by trolley.

Origin of trolly

First recorded in 1815-25; orig. dial.; apparently akin to troll¹

Examples for trolly

He has his trolly, but he's lost his nag, dropped in a fit.'

At six o'clock we had breakfast, and one of them pushed a trolly containing slices of bread and mugs of tea from bed to bed.

It was the work of a minute to lift the trolly off the line.

Men brought us cooling drinks, or moved us into more comfortable positions on the trolly.

The trains were then sent back about half a mile, leaving, however, a trolly with ammunition.

He handed me a thing that looked like a trolly cable and weighed about as much.

The station-master told the ganger of the four navvies who went by on their trolly down the line to work.

Of course you offered Nobbin for Luke's trolly, and now you are going with her.'

I suppose the trolly takes the kids into the village now,” said I. “Centralization, you know.

There was one bunch that squealed like a trolly goin round a turn on dry rails.