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Definition of Flatcar
1. Noun. Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
Definition of Flatcar
1. Noun. A railroad freight car without sides or a roof. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatcar
1. a railroad car without sides or roof [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatcar
Literary usage of Flatcar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1894)
"That he was injured by reason of the defective construction of defendant's flatcar,
which allowed the two cars to come so close together that he was caught ..."
2. The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory, William Phipps Blake (1915)
"M. ahd the flatcar rock then on hand and en route was unloaded in order to release
... 1490 flatcar. Clay. 1182 784 Gravel. 873 During the entire operations ..."
3. Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991)
"(Multiple violations) Placarded flatcar cut off in motion. §174.84(a). Accepting
hazardous materials $ 5625.00 shipment with improperly prepared shipping ..."
4. Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (2000)
"The rear flatcar rocketed into the logs. The nineteen-ton locomotive jumped the
rails, her great driving wheels gouging the earth, plowing up dirt, ..."
5. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn (1921)
"Thereupon they threw a line about the shack and with the engine hauled it to the
side of a flatcar attached to the train. Then with a derrick they hoisted ..."
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