boxcars
Noun
Meaning
(usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots
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My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent.
Robert E. Lee, riding with Longstreet, moved on to Amelia Court House, where to his bitter disappointment he discovered that the boxcars waiting for him carried no rations.
Railroad boxcars, called "side door coaches" by the hobos, were frequently plastered with silent agitators from the IWW.
Automobiles for individuals were also handled by express in closed boxcars.
In April or August 1944, they and other Gestapo prisoners were packed into covered goods wagons (US: boxcars) and sent to Buchenwald.
Portability was managed only by rail and with the use of thirty boxcars.