U.S. A passenger car, running through the streets, usually on rails; a tram-car.
1862. A. Trollope, N. Amer., I. 185. Omnibuses, or street cars working on rails run hither and thither.
1872. Howells, Wedd. Journ. (1892), 29. The street-cars that slowly tinkled up and down.
attrib. 1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 1858/1. Dean and Coleman’s street-car rail.
1888. Pennell, Sent. Journey, 20. Here we turned from river and street-car track to walk to the other end of the town.
