Definition of Railroad car

1. Noun. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad. "Three cars had jumped the rails"


Definition of Railroad car

1. Noun. Any railroad vehicle that is not a locomotive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Railroad Car

railingless
railingly
railings
railleries
raillery
railless
railleur
railleurs
raillies
raillietiniasis
railly
railman
railmen
railroad
railroad bed
railroad car (current term)
railroad cars
railroad crossing
railroad disease
railroad engineer
railroad flat
railroad gun
railroad guns
railroad line
railroad man
railroad nystagmus
railroad sickness
railroad siding
railroad spike
railroad station

Literary usage of Railroad car

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Inculpatory facts sufficient, with possession of property stolen by the breaking and entering of a railroad car, to convict accused of the breaking, ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"HEAD REST FOR railroad car SEATS. Mr. Alonzo label], of Norwalk, Connecticut, says the Scientific American, has invented and taken measures to secure a ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1904)
"RAILROAD-CAR BRAKING. BY RA PARKE. A sketch of the practical development of brakes in railroad services: an analysis of the results of investigation of ..."

4. Annual Report by Maine Board of Railroad Commissioners (1889)
"74, amend- igj,^ 74 ^hc conductor of a train of cars on any railroad or street railroad car, may arrest and temporarily conductor may hold any person guilty ..."

5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"AN INCIDENT IN A railroad car HE spoke of Burns: men rude and rough Pressed round to hear the praise of one Whose heart was made of manly, simple stuff, ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"... or ¡f it shall charge, collect, or receive from any person or persons, for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad, ..."

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