perambulator
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
perambulator (plural perambulators)
- (Britain) A baby carriage; a pram.
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
- That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
- One who perambulates.
- A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
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Translations[edit]
pram — see pram
Further reading[edit]
perambulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
perambulātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō
References[edit]
- perambulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- perambulator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
