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perambulators

perambulators is the plural of perambulator.

Meaning of perambulator

Noun

perambulator (plural perambulators)

  1. (Ireland, UK, dated) A baby carriage.
    • The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    pram
  2. One who perambulates.
  3. A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.

Questions about perambulators

What is perambulators the plural of?
Perambulators is the plural of perambulator.

Words near perambulators in the dictionary

  1. perambulations
  2. perambulative
  3. perambulatives
  4. perambulator
  5. perambulatorily
  6. perambulators
  7. perambulatory
  8. peramelemorphian
  9. peramelemorphians
  10. peramelian
  11. peramelians

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