[f. TRAM sb.2 or v.1]
1. Coal-mining, etc. A man or boy who removes the trams of coal, etc., from the workings; a putter.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 982. Two persons called trammers are employed to transport the coals.
1878. Davies, Slate Quarrying, 117. The trammers … convey the slate blocks from the quarry to the dressers, and … also remove the waste.
1889. Eng. Illustr. Mag., May, 572/2. Trammers are usually strong youths and prospective colliers.
1905. Act 5 Edw. VII., c. 9 § 2. Such persons if they are either in charge of working places or are holers, fillers, trammers, or brushers.
2. One who is employed on a tramway; also, a horse used to draw a tram-car.
1889. Even. News, 7 Oct. The trammers are equally worthy of public sympathy with the dock labourers.
1901. Daily Chron., 28 Dec., 9/7. The horses are good trammers, active, and fresh from work, and in good condition.
