perambulator
Noun

perambulator (plural perambulators)

  1. (British) 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.
  2. One who perambulates.
  3. 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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