Definition of Freight liner

1. Noun. A long-distance express freight train between industrial centers and seaports with facilities for rapid loading and unloading of goods.

Exact synonyms: Liner Train
Generic synonyms: Freight Train, Rattler

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freight Liner

freezings
freezoner
freezoners
freezy
fregola
freibergite
freibergites
freieslebenite
freight
freight-only
freight agent
freight car
freight densities
freight density
freight elevator
freight liner (current term)
freight rate
freight train
freight trains
freightage
freightages
freighted
freighter
freighters
freighting
freightless
freights
freightwagon
freightwagons
freind

Literary usage of Freight liner

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

1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"It is, perhaps, outside the province of this paper to discuss the question of freight liner versus freight tramps. The liner comes more to the front as time ..."

2. Industrial Magazine (1907)
"With the exception of Jim Hill's monster vessels, the Dakota and Minnesota, she is the largest freight liner in the world. The Manchuria cost originally ..."

3. Information Annual ...: A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events (1916)
"—"Armenian" case The Dominion freight liner Armenian, flying the British flag and carrying mules from Newport News, Va., to England, was torpedoed and sunk ..."

4. Ports and Terminal Facilities by Roy Samuel MacElwee (1918)
"... the better the service, the more animated the business of the port, the greater the possibility of filling the large and economical freight liner. ..."

5. Writing for Print: A Handbook in Journalistic Composition, with Suggestions by Harry Franklin Harrington (1922)
"This morning the steamer Nantucket, a freight liner, with two passengers on board, struck the Old Dominion line's passenger steamer Monroe off Hogg Island, ..."

6. Railway Reform: Regulation of Freight Transport Markets by ECMT Staff, Ecmt (2001)
"... later purchased the loss making Rail Express Systems and the Channel Tunnel part of Railfreight Distribution |ie excluding the Freight- liner business1. ..."

7. Zimmermann on Ocean Shippingby Erich Walter Zimmermann by Erich Walter Zimmermann (1921)
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