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car	a vehicle that runs on rails, such as a streetcar or railroad car. [1/3 definitions]
carman	one who works on a streetcar; motorman or conductor.
conductor	the official on a passenger train, bus, or streetcar who collects payment. [1/4 definitions]
fender	a heavy guard on the front of a locomotive or streetcar, to push obstacles away. [1/5 definitions]
horsecar	a streetcar pulled by a horse or horses. [1/2 definitions]
motorman	the operator of an electrified vehicle such as a subway train, trolley, streetcar, or the like. [1/2 definitions]
tram¹	(chiefly British) a public passenger vehicle propelled electrically along metal tracks on the ground; streetcar. [1/4 definitions]
trolley	a vehicle, esp. a streetcar, propelled electrically along a track or overhead wires. [2/7 definitions]
trolley car	a streetcar that is propelled along rails by an electric current transmitted through a trolley from a wire suspended overhead or laid in the tracks.

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