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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Trolly

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.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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