[tram] n [E dial., shaft of a wheelbarrow, prob. fr. LG traam, lit., beam] (ca. 1517) 1: any of various vehicles: as a: a boxlike wagon running on rails (as in a mine) b chiefly Brit: streetcar c: a carrier that travels on an overhead cable or rails
2. pl, chiefly Brit: a streetcar line
[2]tram vt trammed ; tram.ming (1874): to haul in a tram or over a tramway