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Webster 1913 Edition
Perambulator
Per-am′bu-laˊtor
,Noun.
1.
One who perambulates.
2.
A surveyor’s instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See
Odometer
. Webster 1828 Edition
Perambulator
PERAM'BULATOR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
perambulator
perambulator
English
Noun
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.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
pram — see pram
perambulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Verb
perambulātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō
References
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “perambulator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- perambulator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016