perambulator
Noun
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Noun
perambulator (plural perambulators)
- (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.
- 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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