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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a conveyance used primarily for carrying passengers and equipped to run on rails set in the street.
Quotations
1887
Toronto law is plain and hard--no streetcars out on Sunday. . . .
1960
"The Transcontinental! For Winnipeg! " cried the nun, grasping her little cross. "And you say that as I might say I'm going to take the streetcar. . . ."