perambulator

English

Etymology

perambulate +‎ -or

Noun

perambulator (plural perambulators)

  1. (Britain) A baby carriage.
    Synonym: pram
    • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:
      The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.
    • 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.

Translations
pram — see pram

Further reading

Latin

Verb

perambulātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō

References
  • perambulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • perambulator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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