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A shopping cart held by a woman, containing bags and food. A shopping cart (American English), trolley (British English, Australian English), or buggy (Southern American English, Appalachian English), also known by a variety of other names, is a wheeled cart supplied by a shop or store, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the premises for transport of merchandise as they move ...
The trolleys commonly have two parallel wheels on a hand truck style frame (with a handle and stand), but some designs have four or six wheels. In some countries the trolleys are traditionally regarded as being used by pensioner-age women, [5] [6] with granny cart being an American slang term for the four-wheeled wire-framed trolleys, [7] [8 ...
The trolley is a rigid box form with castering wheels at each corner that can be braked to hold the trolley in position. Full and half size trollies are made. The front (both full and half size) and rear (full size only) have doors, and handles are provided at the top. There are currently several design families of trolley in use: [1] [2]
Trolleybus, or trolley, an electric bus drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles Trolleytruck, a trolleybus-like vehicle used for carrying cargo; Tourist trolley, a rubber-tired bus designed to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram; Trolley (horse-drawn), a goods vehicle with four wheels of equal size mounted underneath it
The Wickham trolley was a railway engineering personnel carrier built by D. Wickham & Co of Ware, Hertfordshire. This long established firm introduced their rail trolley in 1922 as a lightweight track inspection and maintenance vehicle. This was a success and production of rail trolleys and railcars for inspection and maintenance continued ...
The third floor was devoted entirely to trolley storage and maintenance. At the trolley system's peak the barn serviced 85 cars. [2] The barn helped the trolley network grow with the city to nine lines total. It made connections with other Third Avenue Railway System lines such as across the county in Mount Vernon.
Dessert cart (known as a sweet trolley in the UK) – This is mainly used in restaurants where it is wheeled from table to table allowing customers to select a dessert. Dim sum cart – Used in Chinese restaurants, this type of cart contains a steam table to keep the bamboo steamers hot. It may be wheeled by servers from table to table or be ...
a cabinet or wardrobe, as for utensils or apparel; in the latter case oftenest built-in; hence e.g. walk-in closet, linen closet, and skeleton in the closet *(UK also: in the cupboard) * coach: bus with a higher standard of comfort, usually chartered or used for longer journeys* tutor, usu. private, who prepares pupils for examinations*