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Perambulator n.

One who perambulates.

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.

A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing; a baby carriage; called also pram, in Britain.

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"Perambulator" Quotes from Famous Books

... quite see where I mean," said Berry, pointing. "I mean along that temporary passage, which would admit a small perambulator." ...

— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... Minnie;' and, on encouragement, launched into such a description of her charges—the blacksmith's small children—that Lady Phyllis went back, not without regrets that she could not be a little nurse who had done with school at twelve years old, and spent her days at the back of a perambulator. ...

— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge

... for three hours to a suburb of New York. I am so tired of the abominable trains that an aeroplane or a perambulator would be a relief, and the road to Montclair was full of interest. The sky was throbbing with carmine and gold, and the varying lights of green and white, reflected in a river sentinelled on either side by high black buildings and pointed towers, left ...

— My Impresssions of America • Margot Asquith

... style of the British working man. He would negligently descend from the heavens with a stick. This he would lay on the fabric and then carefully perform his toilet, looking round and down all the time to see that every one else was busy. Whenever his eye lighted upon a toddling child or a perambulator it visibly brightened. "My true work!" he seemed to say; "this nest building is a mere by-path of industry." After prinking and overlooking, and congratulating himself thus, for a few minutes, he would stroll off, over the housetops, for another stick. He was ...

— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas

... Jack pretend to be anxious to shield Cecily and Gwendolen from hearing the details of a terrible public scandal.] Twenty-eight years ago, Prism, you left Lord Bracknell's house, Number 104, Upper Grosvenor Street, in charge of a perambulator that contained a baby of the male sex. You never returned. A few weeks later, through the elaborate investigations of the Metropolitan police, the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. It contained ...

— The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • Oscar Wilde

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