TRAM

I. noun Etymology: English dialect, shaft of a wheelbarrow, probably from Low German traam, literally, beam Date: circa 1517 any of various vehicles: as, a boxlike wagon running on rails (as in a mine), streetcar , a carrier that travels on an overhead cable or rails, a streetcar line, II. transitive verb (~med; ~ming) Date: 1874 to haul in a ~ or over a ~way