n. See tramway, 2.To use a trammel or distance gage in order to get. two shafts, or other axes, parallel to one another, or at right angles to another axis to which both are to be perpendicular.n. A beam or bar: as, gallows trams.n. The shaft of a cart, wheelbarrow, or vehicle of any kind.n. A plank road.n. One of the two parallel lines of rails which form a tramway.n. A tramway.n. A four-wheeled car or wagon used in coal-mines, especially in the north of England, for conveying the coals from the working-places to the pit-bottom, or from the pit-mouth to the place of shipment.n. Same as tram-car.n. In a grinding-mill, position perpendicular to the face of the bedstone: said of a spindle. See tramming.To move or transport on a tramway.To operate a tram; also, to travel by tram.n. A machine; a contrivance.n. A device, resembling a trammel, used for shaping oval molds, etc.n. A kind of double silk thread, in which two or move strands or singles are twisted together in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles, used for the weft or cross-threads of gros-de-Naples velvets, flowered silks, and the best varieties of silk goods. Also called shute.