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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRAM
PRAME, n. A flat-bottomed boat or lighter; used in Holland for conveying goods to or from a ship in loading or unloading.
1. In military affairs, a kind of floating battery or flat-bottomed vessel, mounting several cannon; used in covering the disembarkation of troops.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle Dutch praem & Middle Low German pr?m Date: 1548 a small lightweight nearly flat-bottomed boat with a broad transom and usually squared-off bow II. noun Etymology: by shortening & alteration from perambulator Date: 1884 chiefly British baby carriage

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. Brit. a four-wheeled carriage for a baby, pushed by a person on foot. Etymology: abbr. of PERAMBULATOR 2. n. (also praam) 1 a flat-bottomed gunboat or Baltic cargo-boat. 2 a Scandinavian ship's dinghy. Etymology: MDu. prame, praem, MLG pram(e), f. OSlav. pramu

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Praam Praam, n. [D. praam; cf. G. prahm, F. prame; all of Slavonic origin, from a word akin to E. fare. See Fare.] (Naut.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. [Written also pram, and prame.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pram Pram, Prame Prame, n. (Naut.) See Praam.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(prams) A pram is a small vehicle in which a baby can lie as it is pushed along. (BRIT; in AM, usually use baby carriage) N-COUNT