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Railway car   /rˈeɪlwˌeɪ kɑr/   Listen
Railway car

noun
1.
A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad.  Synonyms: car, railcar, railroad car.






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"Railway car" Quotes from Famous Books



... The woman's injured volubility rushed past her as a scene outside a railway car rushes past us, leaving only one idea, one word caught at, as from the window through which we apprehend the landscape, one scene or portion of a scene enchains the eye and lingers in the mind though other scenes fly past ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison

... place, of which, as you may suppose, we stood greatly in need, not only by reason of our hard travelling for a long time, but on account of the incessant persecutions of the people, by land and water, on stage coach, railway car, and steamer, which exceeds anything you can picture to yourself by the utmost stretch of your imagination. So far we have had this hotel nearly to ourselves. It is a large square house, standing on a bold height, with overhanging eaves like a Swiss cottage, and a wide handsome gallery ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens

... Cato the younger, "for the foolish fondness of man teaches her discourtesy." If man, instead of giving her his seat in the railway car, and slavishly removing his hat in the elevator, and acquiescing in her tyrannical hat at the theatre, insisted upon his legal rights in a bargain, and required the railroad company to furnish without evasion ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis



Words linked to "Railway car" :   train, suspension system, caboose, passenger car, luggage van, club car, slip coach, mail car, van, wheeled vehicle, handcar, cabin car, railroad train, slip carriage, freight car, baggage car, coach, tender, guard's van, suspension, lounge car, carriage



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