Meaning

10 senses
  1. A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.

  2. (US)A streetcar or light train.

  3. (US, colloquial)A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.

  4. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

    Krankatze, Laufkatze

  5. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

  6. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK)A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.

  7. (UK)A hand truck.

  8. (UK)A soapbox car.

  9. (UK)A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.

  10. (Philippines)A handcar.

More definitions
  • a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity

Examples

29 sentences
  1. I can't find a shopping trolley.

    Я не можу знайти візок для покупок. — deniko

    ruЯ не могу найти тележку для покупок. — marafon

    deIch kann keinen Einkaufswagen finden. — mhr

  2. I put the ice-cream tub into the trolley.

    Я поклала баночку з морозивом до возика. — deniko

    deIch habe den Eisbecher in den Einkaufswagen gestellt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom queued behind an old biddy with a full trolley.

    Том встав у чергу за якоюсь старою каргою з повним продуктовим возиком. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

  4. I'm waiting for the trolley.

    Я чекаю на трамвай. — shanghainese

    ruЯ жду троллейбус. — prokofyev

  5. I always use a shopping trolley.

    deIch benutze immer einen Einkaufswagen. — al_ex_an_der

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
crane trolley:

Origin

Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from tro

Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).

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