dolly

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Informal A child's doll.
• noun A low mobile platform that rolls on casters, used for transporting heavy loads.
• noun Such a platform as used by one working underneath a motor vehicle.
• noun A hand truck.
• noun A wheeled apparatus used to transport a movie camera steadily along the ground or along a track.
• noun A movie shot made by a camera moving steadily on a dolly; a tracking shot.
• noun A small locomotive, as for use in a railroad yard or on a construction site.
• noun A wooden implement for stirring clothes in a washtub.
• noun A tool used to hold one end of a rivet while the opposite end is being hammered to form a head.
• noun A small piece of wood or metal placed on the head of a pile to prevent damage to the pile while it is being driven.
• intransitive verb To move a dolly in a specified direction.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A doll. See doll.
• In mining, to concentrate or dress (ore) by the use of the dolly.
• noun In India, a complimentary offering of fruit and flowers, sweetmeats, and the like, usually presented on trays or brass dishes.
• noun Same as doll.
• noun In mining, the flat disk of wood which moves up and down in the keeve or dolly-tub in the process of concentrating ore by tossing and packing. See toss.
• noun In pile-driving, an extension-piece placed on the upper end of a pile, when the head of the pile is beyond the reach of the monkey.
• noun A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet; a snap-head.
• noun A primitive form of apparatus for clothes-washing, consisting of a wooden disk furnished with from three to five legs with rounded ends, and a handle with a cross-piece rising from the center.
• noun A machine for washing pieces of cloth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A child's mane for a doll.
• noun [England] a shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; usually, in fact, an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll.
• noun (Mining) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
• noun (Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
• noun In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
• noun A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
• noun A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
• noun A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
• noun In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
• noun A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
• noun A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
• noun film A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
• noun colloquial : A child's name for a doll.
• noun cricket A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
• noun a doll
• verb transitive, cricket To hit a dolly.
• verb To move an object using a dolly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a small replica of a person; used as a toy
• noun conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted
• noun conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects