tramroad

tramroad noun: a road designed for use by trams or wagons.

Noun

tramroad (plural tramroads)

A road designed for use by trams or wagons.
- 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.1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
- 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.1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1

Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 4:
The distance between termini was about eight miles, of which 6 miles 22 ch. was to be tramroad on private right-of-way.1955 September, Donald F. Phillips, “From Blackpool to Fleetwood by Tramroad”, in Railway Magazine, page 641:

plural	tramroads

From tram + road.

What does tramroad mean?: Tramroad means a road designed for use by trams or wagons.
How do you use tramroad in a sentence?: Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
What part of speech is tramroad?: Tramroad is a noun.
What is the plural of tramroad?: The plural of tramroad is tramroads.

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