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Trolly

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A cart used in mines and on railways. A railway trolly is worked by the hand, which moves a treadle; a coal-mine trolly used to be pushed by trolly-boys; ponies are now generally employed instead of boys. (Welsh, trol, a cart; trolio, to roll or trundle, whence “to troll a catch”—i.e. to sing a catch or round.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Trojan War (The)
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