Definitions for tramroad

tramroad tram·road

Spelling: [tram-rohd]
IPA: /ˈtræmˌroʊd/

Tramroad is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in tramroad (aadmorrt).

Definitions for tramroad

noun

  1. (in a mine) a small railroad for trams.

Origin of tramroad

First recorded in 1785-95; tram1 + road

Examples for tramroad

A tramroad or railroad, then; there was no other alternative.

Business men put their heads together, and began earnestly to talk of a tramroad.

"A railway, and not a tramroad," said Stephenson, when the subject was fairly and fully opened.

The adoption of a tramroad, it is true, had tended to facilitate their transit.

He built a third, and ran it on the tramroad that passed by old Bob Stephenson's cottage door.

There being no accommodations for passengers, the party walked the tramroad; at the terminus they unloaded and stayed all night.

There was nothing in a simple horse railroad, or tramroad, as it is called, to provoke an opposition so bitter from the people.

The gauge of the first tramroad laid down had virtually settled the point.

Word Value for tramroad
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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